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"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."
- Demosthenes, More quotation on Opportunity. |
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"All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action."
- Demosthenes. |
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"Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master."
- Demosthenes. |
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"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."
- Demosthenes. |
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"The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true."
- Demosthenes. |
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"The fact speak for themselves."
- Demosthenes. |
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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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"Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue."
- Demosthenes, First Olynthiac. |
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"There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one’s self."
- Demosthenes, Olynthiac. |
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"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true."
- Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac. |