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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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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
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Affection Deceive Easy Subtle
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
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
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
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Blessing Destroy Fortune Goodness
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
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
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
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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Change Fortune High Man Prosperity State
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File 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
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
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
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
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
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
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing

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