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

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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
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
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
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Affection Deceive Easy Subtle
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
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
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
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
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power
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
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
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
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself 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
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
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

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

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