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

Demosthenes

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
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
Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, “How well he spoke” but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, “Let us march.
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Ourselves People Talk Time
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
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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Blessing Destroy Fortune Goodness
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
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
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
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
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 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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