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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.

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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
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
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
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
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots – suspicion.
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Guard Known Safety Suspicious
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
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story

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