It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
DEMOSTHENESAll speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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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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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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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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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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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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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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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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