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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Demosthenes

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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Action Greatness Man Success Tendency
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.
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Action Himself Proud Spirit
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
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
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
Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, “How well he spoke” but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, “Let us march.
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Ourselves People Talk Time
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
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
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
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Crack Fools Known Sound Wisdom
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness 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

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