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• The fact speak for themselves.
• There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But…
• Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
• Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it…
• We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
• Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
• You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such…
• The most noble title any child can have is Third.
• To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
• What we wish, that we readily believe.
• No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
• What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

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