One believes in what one wants to believe in.
DEMOSTHENESGreat and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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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 fact speak for themselves.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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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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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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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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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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