It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man’s thought must always follow his employment.
DEMOSTHENESThe man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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The man who flies shall fight again.
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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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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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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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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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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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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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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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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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