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Demosthenes quotes: The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

Demosthenes quotes: There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

Demosthenes quotes: What a man wishes, he will believe.

What a man wishes, he will believe.

Demosthenes quotes: The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

Demosthenes quotes: Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.

Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.

Demosthenes quotes: Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

Demosthenes quotes: Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

Demosthenes quotes: We believe whatever we want to believe.

We believe whatever we want to believe.

Demosthenes quotes: We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

Demosthenes quotes: I decline to buy repentance at the cost often thousand drachmas.

I decline to buy repentance at the cost often thousand drachmas.

Demosthenes quotes: Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Demosthenes quotes: As a vessel is known by its sound whether it be cracked or not, so men are proved by their speeches whether they be wise or foolish.

As a vessel is known by its sound whether it be cracked or not, so men are proved by their speeches whether they be wise or foolish.

Demosthenes quotes: Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

Demosthenes quotes: Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Demosthenes quotes: I'll betide thee, say I, and may the Gods, or at least the Athenians, confound thee for a vile citizen and a vile third-rate actor! Read the evidence.

I'll betide thee, say I, and may the Gods, or at least the Athenians, confound thee for a vile citizen and a vile third-rate actor! Read the evidence.

Demosthenes quotes: Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Demosthenes quotes: 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 spirit.

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 spirit.

Demosthenes quotes: Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Demosthenes quotes: All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Demosthenes quotes: What a man wishes he generally believes to be true

What a man wishes he generally believes to be true

Demosthenes quotes: What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Demosthenes quotes: A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Demosthenes quotes: No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

Demosthenes quotes: Virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage.

Virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage.

Demosthenes quotes: The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.

The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.

Demosthenes quotes: Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!

Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!

Demosthenes quotes: Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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

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

Demosthenes quotes: To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Demosthenes quotes: Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Demosthenes quotes: The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.

The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.

Demosthenes quotes: The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

Demosthenes quotes: What we wish, that we readily believe.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes quotes: One believes in what one wants to believe in..

One believes in what one wants to believe in..

Demosthenes quotes: By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

Demosthenes quotes: The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.

The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.

Demosthenes quotes: The most noble title any child can have is Third.

The most noble title any child can have is Third.

Demosthenes quotes: Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

Demosthenes quotes: Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.

Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.

Demosthenes quotes: Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.

Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.

Demosthenes quotes: The fact speak for themselves.

The fact speak for themselves.

Demosthenes quotes: The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

Demosthenes quotes: The man who flies shall fight again.[Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.]

The man who flies shall fight again.
[Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.]

Demosthenes quotes: Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.