I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
DEMOSTHENESThe end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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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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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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You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.
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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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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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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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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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The man who flies shall fight again.
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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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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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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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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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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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It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man’s thought must always follow his employment.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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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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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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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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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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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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