The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
DEMOSTHENESGood fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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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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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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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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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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