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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

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
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
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
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
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
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
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
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
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
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
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
Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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Action Greatness Man Success Tendency

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

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