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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Demosthenes

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
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
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
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself 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
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
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
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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Ability Common Dangerous Man
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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Different Favor Forget Himself Reminder Talk
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
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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Guard Known Safety Suspicious
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Affection Deceive Easy Subtle

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

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