Quotes by Demosthenes

Demosthenes

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Action

Empty

Speech

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

Anxiety

Peace

War

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Alliances

Safety

States

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, “How well he spoke” but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, “Let us march.

March

People

Remember

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Enemy

Law

Opponents

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.

Different

Kindness

Men

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

Cost

Decline

Repentance

It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.

Abuse

Men

Praise

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

Affection

Deceit

Self

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.

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Real

Self

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Quotes by Demosthenes

Demosthenes

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, “How well he spoke” but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, “Let us march.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

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.

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

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.

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