Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
DEMOSTHENESTo remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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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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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, “How well he spoke” but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, “Let us march.
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The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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