By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
DEMOSTHENESThere 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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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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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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The fact speak for themselves.
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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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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 often presage great enterprises.
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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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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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