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.
DEMOSTHENESThe 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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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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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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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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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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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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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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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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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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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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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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