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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Demosthenes

The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
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 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
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
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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Friendship Himself Man Willing
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
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
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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Believe Easy General Man True
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

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