The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
DEMOSTHENESThe fact speak for themselves.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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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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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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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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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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The man who flies shall fight again.
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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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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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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