What a man wishes, he will believe.
DEMOSTHENESClose alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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The fact speak for themselves.
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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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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 readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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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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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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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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