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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
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
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
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
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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Goodness Reminder Reproach
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
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
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
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
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 readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way

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