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.
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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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
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The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
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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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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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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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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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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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