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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Demosthenes

By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
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 sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
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
What we wish, that we readily 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
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
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
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
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
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
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
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

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