Demosthenes

Showing quotations 1 to 11 of 11 total All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. DemosthenesBeware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. DemosthenesHe who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach. DemosthenesSmall opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. Demosthenes The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true. DemosthenesThe fact speak for themselves. DemosthenesThe man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once. DemosthenesEvery advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue. Demosthenes, First OlynthiacThere is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one?s self. Demosthenes, OlynthiacNothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. Demosthenes, Third OlynthiacYou cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac

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