We believe whatever we want to believe.
DEMOSTHENESThe readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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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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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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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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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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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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The man who flies shall fight again.
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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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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