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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots – suspicion.

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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
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
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
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
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
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
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots – suspicion.

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