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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
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
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Change Fortune High Man Prosperity State
The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
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Ability Common Dangerous Man
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
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
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
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
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
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
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
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
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man

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