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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.

Demosthenes

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
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
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
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
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
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
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
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
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret

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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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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