The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
DEMOSTHENESAll speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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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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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 readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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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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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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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
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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 the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
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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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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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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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The fact speak for themselves.
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