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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
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Change Fortune High Man Prosperity State
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
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
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
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
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
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
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
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Affection Deceive Easy Subtle
Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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Action Greatness Man Success Tendency
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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God Image Justice Love Truth
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

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