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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Demosthenes

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
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
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
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
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
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Affection Deceive Easy Subtle
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
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
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
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
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
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
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
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State

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