We believe whatever we want to believe.
DEMOSTHENESIt 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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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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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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The man who flies shall fight again.
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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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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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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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He 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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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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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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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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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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