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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

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
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 best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
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Crack Fools Known Sound Wisdom
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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God Image Justice Love Truth
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
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
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
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety 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
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

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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