No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
DEMOSTHENESNothing 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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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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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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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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The man who flies shall fight again.
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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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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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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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