We believe whatever we want to believe.
DEMOSTHENESNothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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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 oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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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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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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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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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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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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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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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 fact speak for themselves.
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, “How well he spoke” but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, “Let us march.
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