We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
DEMOSTHENESBeware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
More Demosthenes Quotes
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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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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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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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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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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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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.
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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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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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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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