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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.

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
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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Action Himself Proud Spirit
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
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Deal Greatness Oneself Thinking
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Affection Deceive Easy Subtle
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
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
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.
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Benefit Forget Man Remember
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
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
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

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.

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