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

Demosthenes

The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
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
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
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Blessing Destroy Fortune Goodness
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
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
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
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
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Affection Deceive Easy Subtle
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk

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

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