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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
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
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
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
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
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
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
It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
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Abuse Impatience Listening Man Natural Pleasure Praise
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
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Benefit Forget Man Remember
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
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
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story

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