Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
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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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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots -- suspicion.
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There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one’s self.
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The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.
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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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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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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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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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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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The fact speak for themselves.
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