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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Demosthenes

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
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Different Favor Forget Himself Reminder Talk
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
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
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 end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
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
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 wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
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
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
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Friendship Himself Man Willing
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
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

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