Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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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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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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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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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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The man who flies shall fight again.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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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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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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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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It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
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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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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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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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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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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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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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