Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
DEMOSTHENESHe 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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The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
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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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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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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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The fact speak for themselves.
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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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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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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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