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

Demosthenes

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
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe 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
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power
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
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Affection Deceive Easy Subtle
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
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
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
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

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