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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

Demosthenes

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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Goodness Reminder Reproach
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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Existence Money Need
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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Believe Easy General Man True
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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Benefit Forget Man Remember
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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Friendship Himself Man Willing
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
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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Believe Consistency Easy Expectation State
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
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Crack Fools Known Sound Wisdom
It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
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Abuse Impatience Listening Man Natural Pleasure Praise
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

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