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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

The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
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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Employment Engagement Follow Impossible Man Thinking
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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Goodness Reminder Reproach
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
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
It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
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Abuse Impatience Listening Man Natural Pleasure Praise
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
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
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 so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.
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Believe Consistency Easy Expectation State
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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God Image Justice Love Truth
We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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Existence Money Need
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail

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