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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.
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Action Himself Proud Spirit
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
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
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
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
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
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
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
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
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way

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