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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
DemosthenesDemosthenes The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
DemosthenesDemosthenes The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
DemosthenesDemosthenes To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
DemosthenesDemosthenes The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
DemosthenesDemosthenes What a man wishes, he will believe.
DemosthenesDemosthenes Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
DemosthenesDemosthenes There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
DemosthenesDemosthenes Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
DemosthenesDemosthenes Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
DemosthenesDemosthenes One believes in what one wants to believe in.
DemosthenesDemosthenes Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
DemosthenesDemosthenes 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.
DemosthenesDemosthenes Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
DemosthenesDemosthenes Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
DemosthenesDemosthenes 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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I will be everywhere you look but nowhere to be found and that will be my revenge.
Aurora RaineAurora Raine If you feel stronger and good when the weather is sunny and weaker and bad when the weather is cloudy, then it means your willpower is not powerful yet!
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