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As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
Demosthenes
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
Demosthenes
The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
Demosthenes
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
Demosthenes
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
Demosthenes
What a man wishes, he will believe.
Demosthenes
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
Demosthenes
We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
Demosthenes
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
Demosthenes
We believe whatever we want to believe.
Demosthenes
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
Demosthenes
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
Demosthenes
The man who flies shall fight again. [Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.]
Demosthenes
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
Demosthenes
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
Demosthenes
