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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.

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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
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
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
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
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
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
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
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
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 best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power
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
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself

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