The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

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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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The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.

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There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

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