Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
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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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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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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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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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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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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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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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