We believe whatever we want to believe.
DEMOSTHENESIt is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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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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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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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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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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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 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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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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