All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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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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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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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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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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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The man who flies shall fight again.
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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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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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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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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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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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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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