Demosthenes Quotes

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• The fact speak for themselves.
• There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have…
• Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
• Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in…
• We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
• Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
• You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his…
• The most noble title any child can have is Third.
• To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
• What we wish, that we readily believe.
• No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
• What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
• It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.
• Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
• It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
• Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
• Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
• He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of…
• The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
• Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

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