As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
DEMOSTHENESIt 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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The man who flies shall fight again.
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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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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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You 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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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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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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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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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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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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