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.
DEMOSTHENESClouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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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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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots – suspicion.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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