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

Demosthenes

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
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots – suspicion.
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Guard Known Safety Suspicious
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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God Image Justice Love Truth
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
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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Blessing Destroy Fortune Goodness
Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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Action Greatness Man Success Tendency
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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Change Fortune High Man Prosperity State
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
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
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
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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Deal Greatness Oneself Thinking

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

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