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We believe whatever we want to believe.

Demosthenes

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.
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Action Himself Proud Spirit
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
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
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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Friendship Himself Man Willing
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise 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 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
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
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
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
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
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
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing

We believe whatever we want to believe.

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