No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
From Demosthenes
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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.
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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