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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

Demosthenes

What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
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
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
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
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.
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Action Himself Proud Spirit
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
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 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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