Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
DEMOSTHENESI decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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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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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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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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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 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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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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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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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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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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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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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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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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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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