Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.Demosthenes
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I am a citizen of the world.
Demosthenes
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
Demosthenes
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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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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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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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.
Demosthenes
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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