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.
DEMOSTHENESThe readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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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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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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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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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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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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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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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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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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