Demosthenes Quotes
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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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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 a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
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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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Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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You 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.
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It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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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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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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ὥσπερ γὰρ οἰκίας, οἶμαι, καὶ πλοίου καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν τοιούτων τὰ κάτωθεν ἰσχυρότατ᾽ εἶναι δεῖ, οὕτω καὶ τῶν πράξεων τὰς ἀρχὰς καὶ τὰς ὑποθέσεις ἀληθεῖς καὶ δικαίας εἶναι προσήκει
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.