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.
DEMOSTHENESDo 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.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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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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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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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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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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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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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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