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Demosthenes
Greek
Statesman
About the author
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
Demosthenes,
Greek
Statesman
#Censure
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
Demosthenes,
Greek
Statesman
#Action
#Speech
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
Demosthenes,
Greek
Statesman
#War
#Anxiety
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
Demosthenes,
Greek
Statesman
#Enemy
#Freedom
#Law
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
Demosthenes,
Greek
Statesman
#Security
#states
I am a citizen of the world.
Demosthenes,
Greek
Statesman
#World
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
Demosthenes,
Greek
Statesman
#Right
#Man
#Friends
#Help
#Gods
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
Demosthenes,
Greek
Statesman
#Man
#Wishes
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
Demosthenes,
Greek
Statesman
#People
#Protection
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,
Greek
Statesman
#Men
#Sound
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,
Greek
Statesman
#Security
#Suspicion
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
Demosthenes,
Greek
Statesman
#Man
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
Demosthenes,
Greek
Statesman
#Love
#God
#Truth
#Justice
What we wish, that we readily believe.
Demosthenes,
Greek
Statesman
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,
Greek
Statesman
#Man
#Spirit
#Actions
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes,
Greek
Statesman
#Beginning
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
Demosthenes,
Greek
Statesman
#states