Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
DEMOSTHENESThe best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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The fact speak for themselves.
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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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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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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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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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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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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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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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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The man who flies shall fight again.
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