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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.

Demosthenes

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
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 man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
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
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
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
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
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
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
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
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 advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
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
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth

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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