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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
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
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 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
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power
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
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 we wish, that we readily 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
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
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
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
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

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

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