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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

Demosthenes

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
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
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
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
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
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
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

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