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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.

Demosthenes

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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Believe Easy General Man True
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.
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Crack Fools Known Sound Wisdom
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
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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Benefit Forget Man Remember
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
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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Deal Greatness Oneself Thinking
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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Action Himself Proud Spirit
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
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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Ourselves People Talk Time
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner

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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