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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

Demosthenes

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 oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
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
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves 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
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
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
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
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
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

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

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