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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

Demosthenes

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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God Image Justice Love Truth
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
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 we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
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
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 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 flies shall fight again.
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