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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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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power
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
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
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
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
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Abuse Impatience Listening Man Natural Pleasure Praise
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
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
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
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
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
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
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
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
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
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
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 fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
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
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

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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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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