“The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.”

Demosthenes
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“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.”

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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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“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”

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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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“To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.”

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“What we wish, that we readily believe.”

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