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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

Demosthenes

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man’s thought must always follow his employment.
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Employment Engagement Follow Impossible Man Thinking
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
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
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
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
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
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Change Fortune High Man Prosperity State
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
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
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
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
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

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