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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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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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Action Greatness Man Success Tendency
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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God Image Justice Love Truth
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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Abuse Impatience Listening Man Natural Pleasure Praise
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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Ability Common Dangerous Man
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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Different Favor Forget Himself Reminder Talk
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man’s thought must always follow his employment.
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Employment Engagement Follow Impossible Man Thinking
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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Believe Easy General Man True
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
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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Blessing Destroy Fortune Goodness
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
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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Guard Known Safety Suspicious
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
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Friendship Himself Man Willing
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

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