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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
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
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
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
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
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
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 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
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
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
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

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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