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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
I am a citizen of the world.
The fact speak for themselves.
The marketplace is democratic.
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
What a man wishes, he will believe.
Time is the wisest counselor of all.
What we wish, that we readily believe.
We believe whatever we want to believe.
Better die standing than live kneeling.
Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
The man who flies shall fight again. [Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.]
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.
It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
