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A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver. - bribed not to speak against Harpalus, he pretended to have lost voice [Bribery] 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. - [Speech] Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. - [War] Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states. - [Despots] 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 on him, and to talk of it, is little different from reproach. - [Kindness] Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders. - [Deceit] Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - [Opportunity] Smelling of the lamp. - [Authorship] The man who flies shall fight again. [Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.] - on his flight at the battle of Chaeronea (338 BC), credited to him by Tertullian "De Fuga In Persecutione", sec. X [War] The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. - [Censure] The sinews of affairs are cut. - attributed to, by Aeschines [Money] The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief. - [Mischief] To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach. - [Courtesy] What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice. - [Truth] An Iliad of woes. - 387, 12 [Woe]
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