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

Demosthenes

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Affection Deceive Easy Subtle
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
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
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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Guard Known Safety Suspicious
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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God Image Justice Love Truth
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
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 readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
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
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
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
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, “How well he spoke” but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, “Let us march.
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Ourselves People Talk Time
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
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State

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