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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.

Demosthenes

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
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
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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Different Favor Forget Himself Reminder Talk
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
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Crack Fools Known Sound Wisdom
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
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
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
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power

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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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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