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What a man wishes, he will believe.

Demosthenes

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
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
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
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
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
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 fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
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
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing

What a man wishes, he will believe.

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