Demosthenes Quotes & Quotations

Demosthenes Quotes

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

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

» What we wish, that we readily believe.

» To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

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

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

» Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

» 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.

» What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

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