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

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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
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
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
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
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
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
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
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
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 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
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
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
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
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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God Image Justice Love Truth
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
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
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

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