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

Demosthenes

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
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
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
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
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
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
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
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
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence

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

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