Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
DEMOSTHENESThere 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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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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The man who flies shall fight again.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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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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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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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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