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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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The man who flies shall fight again. [Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.]
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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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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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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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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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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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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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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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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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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
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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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