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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

Demosthenes

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
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
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
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
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
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
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
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
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
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
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner

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