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

Demosthenes

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
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
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
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
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
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
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.
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Believe Consistency Easy Expectation State
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
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
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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Believe Easy General Man True
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail

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