Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
DEMOSTHENESThe fact speak for themselves.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man’s thought must always follow his employment.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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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 oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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The fact speak for themselves.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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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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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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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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