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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Demosthenes

What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Affection Deceive Easy Subtle
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
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
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 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
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
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
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
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
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
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

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

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