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

Demosthenes

The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power
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
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
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
Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, “How well he spoke” but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, “Let us march.
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Ourselves People Talk Time
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
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
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
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
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
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
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State

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