The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
DEMOSTHENESNothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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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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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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The fact speak for themselves.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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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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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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The man who flies shall fight again.
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The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
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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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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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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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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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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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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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