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Demosthenes
382 BC - 322 BC
Nationality: Greek
Category: Statesman
Subcategory: Greek Statesman

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.

   

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

   

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

   

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.

   

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.

   

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

   

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

   

What we wish, that we readily believe.

   

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

   

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

   

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

   

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

   

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

   

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

   

I am a citizen of the world.

   

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

   

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

   

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