Demosthenes: Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily…
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.
In today’s wordsNothing is easier than deceiving yourself, because we readily believe what we wish; but those expectations often clash with how things really are.
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