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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

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
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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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
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
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
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 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
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
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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Action Himself Proud Spirit
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
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
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
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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Goodness Reminder Reproach

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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