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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man’s thought must always follow his employment.
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Employment Engagement Follow Impossible Man Thinking
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, “How well he spoke” but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, “Let us march.
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Ourselves People Talk Time
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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God Image Justice Love Truth
We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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Existence Money Need
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
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Change Fortune High Man Prosperity State
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
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Ability Common Dangerous Man
Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
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Blessing Destroy Fortune Goodness

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