Famous Quotes
19 Quotations with Demos.
- 1. Demosthenes: He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid u ...
- 2. Demosthenes: Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular ...
- 4. Demosthenes: Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
- 5. Demosthenes: Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also belie ...
- 6. Demosthenes: You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry ...
- 7. Demosthenes: All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
- 8. Demosthenes: The fact speak for themselves.
- 9. Demosthenes: The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self; for what a man wishes he gene ...
- 10. Demosthenes: The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has g ...
- 11. Demosthenes: Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
- 12. Demosthenes: There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing ...
- 13. Demosthenes: A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believ ...
- 14. Demosthenes: No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, ...
- 15. Demosthenes: The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
- 16. Demosthenes: To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach ...
- 17. Demosthenes: What we wish, that we readily believe.
- 18. Plutarch: When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory ...
- 19. Demosthenes: As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are prov ...