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.
DEMOSTHENESA man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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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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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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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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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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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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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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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 sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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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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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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