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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 1677 |
| AUTHOR: | Demosthenes (384?–322 B.C.) |
| QUOTATION: | Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | DEMOSTHENES, Third Olynthiac, paragraph 19, Olynthiacs, Phillippics, Minor Public Speeches…, trans. J. H. Vince, p. 53 (1954). |
| SUBJECTS: | Self-deception |
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