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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.

Demosthenes

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
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
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
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
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Ability Common Dangerous Man
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
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
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
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Blessing Destroy Fortune Goodness
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
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
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 a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself 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
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret

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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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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