Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes ...

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

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Greek orator, 384BC - 322BC

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Benita Valente, Isocrates, Jean Baptiste Massillon, Plato, Heraclitus

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