Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
DEMOSTHENESThe sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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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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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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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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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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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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