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Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.


Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.


Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.


There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive oneís self.


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.


The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.


All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.


Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

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.


Whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.


No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.


You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry.


Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.


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The fact speak for themselves.

Virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage.

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

The fact speak for themselves.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

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
There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm.
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.
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.
As a vessel is known by its sound whether it be cracked or not, so men are proved by their speeches whether they be wise or foolish.
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

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