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Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
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.
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Guard Known Safety Suspicious
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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Deal Greatness Oneself Thinking
We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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Existence Money Need
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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Action Greatness Man Success Tendency
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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Believe Easy General Man True
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
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Affection Deceive Easy Subtle
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
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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Different Favor Forget Himself Reminder Talk
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
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

Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

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