The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
DEMOSTHENESThe best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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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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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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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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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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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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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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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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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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The man who flies shall fight again.
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