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Famous Demosthenes Quotes
“The man who flies shall fight again. [Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.]”
“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)
“No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.”
“A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.”