The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
DEMOSTHENESNo man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
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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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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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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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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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The man who flies shall fight again.
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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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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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