Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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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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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots – suspicion.
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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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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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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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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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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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