What we wish, that we readily believe.
DEMOSTHENESOne believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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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 man who flies shall fight again.
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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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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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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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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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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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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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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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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
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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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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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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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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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