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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Demosthenes

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
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
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
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
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
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
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
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
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 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
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing

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