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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

Demosthenes

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
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
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
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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Ability Common Dangerous Man
Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, “How well he spoke” but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, “Let us march.
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Ourselves People Talk Time
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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Employment Engagement Follow Impossible Man Thinking
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
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
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
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power

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