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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

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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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Action Greatness Man Success Tendency
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
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
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man’s thought must always follow his employment.
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Employment Engagement Follow Impossible Man Thinking
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
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Deal Greatness Oneself Thinking
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
Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, “How well he spoke” but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, “Let us march.
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Ourselves People Talk Time
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
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
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
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
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

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