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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
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
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
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
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
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Affection Deceive Easy Subtle
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
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Abuse Impatience Listening Man Natural Pleasure Praise

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