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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
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
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
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
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Benefit Forget Man Remember
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
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
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
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
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence

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