Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
DEMOSTHENESEvery dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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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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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
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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 best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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The man who flies shall fight again.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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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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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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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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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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