Close Alliances With Despots Are Never Safe

There Is A Great Deal Of Wishful Thinking In Such Cases It Is The Easiest Thing Of All To Deceive Ones Self.

Nothing Is So Easy As To Deceive One's Self; For What We Wish, That We Readily Believe; But Such Expectations Are Often Inconsistent With The Real State Of Things.

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.

Do You Remember That In Classical Times When Cicero Had Finished Speaking, The People Said, "how Well He Spoke" But When Demosthenes Had Finished Speaking, They Said, "let Us March.

The Man Who Flies Shall Fight Again. [lat., Qui Fugiebat, Rusus Praeliabitur.]