Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
DEMOSTHENESHe 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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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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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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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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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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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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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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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The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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