Famous Quotes / Demosthenes
17 Quotations by Demosthenes
- 1. A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
- 2. All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
- 3. As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeche ...
- 4. Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
- 5. Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
- 6. He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To ...
- 7. No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
- 8. Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
- 9. Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
- 10. The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be ...
- 11. The fact speak for themselves.
- 12. The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to f ...
- 13. The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
- 14. There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive o ...
- 15. To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
- 16. What we wish, that we readily believe.
- 17. You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man ...