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The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.

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
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
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
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
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 man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
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
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
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
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself

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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