What a man wishes, he will believe.
DEMOSTHENESSmall opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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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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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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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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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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The man who flies shall fight again.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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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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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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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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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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The fact speak for themselves.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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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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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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