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

Demosthenes

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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Existence Money Need
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
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 are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
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Deal Greatness Oneself Thinking
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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Goodness Reminder Reproach
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Affection Deceive Easy Subtle
Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, “How well he spoke” but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, “Let us march.
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Ourselves People Talk Time
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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Benefit Forget Man Remember
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
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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Change Fortune High Man Prosperity State
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner

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

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