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Greek Statesman Inspirational Quotes (56)

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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
Demosthenes
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The man who flies shall fight again. [Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.]
Demosthenes
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
Demosthenes
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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.
Demosthenes
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
Demosthenes
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
Demosthenes
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As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
Pericles
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
Demosthenes
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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
Pericles
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A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
Pericles
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I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.
Pericles
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Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster because she has expended more life and effort in war than any other city, and has won for herself a power greater than any hitherto known, the memory of which will descend to the latest posterity.
Pericles
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We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
Pericles
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
Demosthenes
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Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
Demosthenes
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
Demosthenes
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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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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
Demosthenes
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The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.
Pericles
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Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again
Pericles
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
Demosthenes
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For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
Pericles
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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
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The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
Demosthenes
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