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

Demosthenes

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
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 best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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God Image Justice Love Truth
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
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Ability Common Dangerous Man
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
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
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
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
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
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

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