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We believe whatever we want to believe.

Demosthenes

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
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
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
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
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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Existence Money Need
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
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
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
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small

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