I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
DEMOSTHENESOne believes in what one wants to believe in.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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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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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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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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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 end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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