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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

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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
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
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
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Change Fortune High Man Prosperity State
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
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
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
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
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
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
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

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

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