The man who flies shall fight again.
DEMOSTHENESYou 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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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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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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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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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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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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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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