There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
DEMOSTHENESThe fact speak for themselves.
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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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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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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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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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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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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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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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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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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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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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