Quotes and Sayings

About Author : Demosthenes was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of ancient Athenian intellectual prowess and provide an insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece during the 4th century BC. Demosthenes learned rhetoric by studying the speeches of previous great orators. He delivered his first judicial speeches at the age of twenty, in which he argued effectively to gain from his guardians what was left of his inheritance. For a time, Demosthenes made his living as a professional speech-writer (logographer) and a lawyer, writing speeches for use in private legal suits.

Demosthenes Quotes and Sayings
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes that he also believes to be true.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise which is an advantage and security to all but especially to democracies against despots suspicion.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

The fact speak for themselves.

The easiest thing of all is to deceive one’s self for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

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

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

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

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.

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.

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.