As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
DEMOSTHENESThe 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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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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The fact speak for themselves.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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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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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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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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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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