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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

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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
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
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
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
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Affection Deceive Easy Subtle
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
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 fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
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
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret

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