The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
DEMOSTHENESThe man who flies shall fight again.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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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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The fact speak for themselves.
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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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 readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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The man who flies shall fight again.
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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 are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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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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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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