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.
DEMOSTHENESNo man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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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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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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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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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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We believe whatever we want to believe.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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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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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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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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