What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
DEMOSTHENESClouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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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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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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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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No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots – suspicion.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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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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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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