Greek - Statesman | 382 BC - 322 BC
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes
GreatBeginningSmallOpportunities
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
FreeNeverSafeCloseStates
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.
MenWiseSoundFoolishVesselKnown
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
ActionSpeechEmptyVainUnless
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
ManBe TrueWishesTrueOwnHe
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
FreedomLawEnemyOpponentDictator
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
WarAnxietyYouMasterBewareAvoid
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.
ManProudYouSpiritMeanWhatever
What we wish, that we readily believe.
BelieveWishReadily
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
LoveGodTruthJusticeImageUs
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
WayGetCorrectOurselvesRid
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
GoodManYouDoneHimLike
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