"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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"All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action."
― Demosthenes
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"It is not white hair that engenders wisdom."
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"The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves."
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"The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess."
― Menander
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"Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue."
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"What we wish, that we readily believe."
― Demosthenes
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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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"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 "
― Demosthenes
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"Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states."
― Demosthenes
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"The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them"
― Demosthenes
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"Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes, that he also beleives to be true."
― Demosthenes
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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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"You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit ."
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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."
― Demosthenes
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