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Demosthenes
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Demosthenes
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
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Demosthenes
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.
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Demosthenes
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Demosthenes
The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.
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Demosthenes
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.
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Demosthenes, Olynthiac
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one?s self.
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Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac
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.
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