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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with D >> Quotes By Demosthenes |
| Quote #1: | "Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true." |
| Quote #2: | "What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice." |
| Quote #3: | "There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots -- suspicion." |
| Quote #4: | "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." |
| Quote #5: | "The fact speak for themselves." |
| Quote #6: | "The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true." |
| Quote #7: | "There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self." |
| Quote #8: | "All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action." |
| Quote #9: | "Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master." |
| Quote #10: | "Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue." |
| Quote #11: | "He 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." |
| Quote #12: | "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." |
| Quote #13: | "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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