The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
DEMOSTHENESHe 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.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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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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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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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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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 sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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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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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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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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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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