Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
DEMOSTHENESDo 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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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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The man who flies shall fight again.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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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.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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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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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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