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Athenian statesman and orator (circa 385-322 BC)

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. Demosthenes »
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. Demosthenes »
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue. Demosthenes »
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. Demosthenes »
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. Demosthenes »
Small 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. Demosthenes »
The fact speak for themselves. Demosthenes »
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. Demosthenes »
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self. Demosthenes »
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots -- suspicion. Demosthenes »
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice. Demosthenes »
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. Demosthenes »

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