The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
DEMOSTHENESHe 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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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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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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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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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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The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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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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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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