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“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.”
“Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.”
“Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.”
Source: All the orations of Demosthenes, pronounced to excite the Athenians against Philip King of Macedon: Translated into English; digested and connected, so as to form a regular history of the progress of the Macedonian power: with notes historical and critical. By Thomas Leland, ...
“The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.”
“Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.”
“The man who flies shall fight again. [Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.]”
“Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.”
“I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.”
“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.”
“Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master”
“We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.”
“Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.”
Source: Complete Works of Demosthenes (Delphi Classics)
“To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.”
Source: Complete Works of Demosthenes (Delphi Classics)
“What we wish, that we readily believe.”
Source: The Orations of Demosthenes
“No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.”
“What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.”
“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”
“A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.”
“Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.”
“All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.”
“Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.”
“Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.”
Source: Complete Works of Demosthenes (Delphi Classics)
“It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.”
Source: All the orations of Demosthenes, pronounced to excite the Athenians against Philip King of Macedon: Translated into English; digested and connected, so as to form a regular history of the progress of the Macedonian power: with notes historical and critical. By Thomas Leland, ...
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit.”
Source: Complete Works of Demosthenes (Delphi Classics)
“The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.”
“Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.”
“Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!”
Source: Complete Works of Demosthenes (Delphi Classics)