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Virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Was man wünscht, das glaubt auch jeder.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeche...

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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

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Demosthenes

Greek Statesman

Born: 0384-01-01 BC

Died: 0322-01-01 BC

Demosthenes (Δημοσθένης) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens, generally considered the greatest of the Greek orators.More