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The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

Demosthenes

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
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
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
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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Believe Easy General Man True
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
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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Believe Consistency Easy Expectation State
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
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
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
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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Crack Fools Known Sound Wisdom

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