The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
DEMOSTHENESNothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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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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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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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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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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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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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 easier than self-deceit.
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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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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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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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