The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
DEMOSTHENESThe fact speak for themselves.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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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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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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The man who flies shall fight again.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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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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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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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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