Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
DEMOSTHENESThe man who flies shall fight again.
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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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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from 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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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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The man who flies shall fight again.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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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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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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