I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
DEMOSTHENESWe believe whatever we want to believe.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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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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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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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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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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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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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 sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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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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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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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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