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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

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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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Friendship Himself Man Willing
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
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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Action Greatness Man Success Tendency
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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Change Fortune High Man Prosperity State
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
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
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
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
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
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Ability Common Dangerous Man
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small

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