One believes in what one wants to believe in.
DEMOSTHENESClose alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
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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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The man who flies shall fight again.
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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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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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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 not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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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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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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