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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

Demosthenes

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
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
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
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
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
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Different Favor Forget Himself Reminder Talk
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, “How well he spoke” but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, “Let us march.
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Ourselves People Talk Time
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
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
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
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

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