We believe whatever we want to believe.
DEMOSTHENESWhat a man wishes, he will believe.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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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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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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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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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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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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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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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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The fact speak for themselves.
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