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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

Demosthenes

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
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
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
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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Blessing Destroy Fortune Goodness
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man’s thought must always follow his employment.
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Employment Engagement Follow Impossible Man Thinking
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
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
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, “How well he spoke” but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, “Let us march.
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Ourselves People Talk Time
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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Guard Known Safety Suspicious

The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

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