Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
DEMOSTHENESThe man who flies shall fight again.
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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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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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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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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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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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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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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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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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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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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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