Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
DEMOSTHENESBy persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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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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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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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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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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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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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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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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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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