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

Demosthenes

Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself 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
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
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
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
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man’s thought must always follow his employment.
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Employment Engagement Follow Impossible Man Thinking
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
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
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
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
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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