The man who flies shall fight again.
DEMOSTHENESWe believe whatever we want to believe.
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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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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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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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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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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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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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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 often presage great enterprises.
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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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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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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 best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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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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