Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
DEMOSTHENESBy persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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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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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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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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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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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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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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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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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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