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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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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
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
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
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
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
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
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Crack Fools Known Sound Wisdom
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.
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Action Himself Proud Spirit
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
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself

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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