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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
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
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
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Affection Deceive Easy Subtle
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
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
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
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
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
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power

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