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

Demosthenes

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
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
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Ability Common Dangerous Man
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Affection Deceive Easy Subtle
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
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
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
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
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
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
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing

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