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You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

Demosthenes

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
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
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
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
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
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
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
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
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
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
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

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

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You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

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