The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
DEMOSTHENESEvery advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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The man who flies shall fight again.
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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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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 a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
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