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There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
— Demosthenes
What a man wishes, he will believe.
— Demosthenes
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
— Demosthenes
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
— Demosthenes
Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
— Demosthenes
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
— Demosthenes
We believe whatever we want to believe.
— Demosthenes
We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
— Demosthenes
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
— Demosthenes
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
— Johann Georg Hamann
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,
that he also believes to be true. — Demosthenes
What a man wishes he generally believes to be true
— Demosthenes
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
— Demosthenes
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
— Demosthenes
The most noble title any child can have is Third.
— Demosthenes
Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long.
— Nathaniel Parker
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
The fact speak for themselves.
— Demosthenes
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
— Demosthenes
One believes in what one wants to believe in..
— Demosthenes
What we wish, that we readily believe.
— Demosthenes
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
— Demosthenes
The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
— Demosthenes
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
— Demosthenes