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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.

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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
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 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
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
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
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
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
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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