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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Demosthenes

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
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
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
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
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
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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Believe Consistency Easy Expectation State
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
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
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
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent

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