All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
DEMOSTHENESA man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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There 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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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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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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The man who flies shall fight again.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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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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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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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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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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