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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.
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Believe Consistency Easy Expectation State
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
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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Friendship Himself Man Willing
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.
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Crack Fools Known Sound Wisdom
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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Goodness Reminder Reproach
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.
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Employment Engagement Follow Impossible Man Thinking
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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God Image Justice Love Truth
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Affection Deceive Easy Subtle
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

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