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.
DEMOSTHENESNothing is easier than self-deceit.
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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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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 readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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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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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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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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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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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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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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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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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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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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