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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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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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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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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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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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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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Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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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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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self for what we wish, that we readily believe but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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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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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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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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