Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
DEMOSTHENESClouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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The fact speak for themselves.
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No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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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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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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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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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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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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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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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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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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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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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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The man who flies shall fight again.
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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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