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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
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Benefit Forget Man Remember
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
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
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
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
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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Goodness Reminder Reproach
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
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing

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