Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
DEMOSTHENESWe believe whatever we want to believe.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
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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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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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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 a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
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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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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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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 need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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