The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
DEMOSTHENESEverything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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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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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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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 fact speak for themselves.
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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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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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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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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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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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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
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