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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

Demosthenes

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
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
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
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
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
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety 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
The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
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Ability Common Dangerous Man
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
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
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
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
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

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