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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Demosthenes

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
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
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
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
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
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man’s thought must always follow his employment.
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Employment Engagement Follow Impossible Man Thinking
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
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
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

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

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