Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
DEMOSTHENESThe end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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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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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
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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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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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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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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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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 is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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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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