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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
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 need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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Existence Money Need
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
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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Ourselves People Talk Time
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
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
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
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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Change Fortune High Man Prosperity State
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
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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