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Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses.
— Plutarch
What a man wishes, he will believe.
— Demosthenes
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
— Demosthenes
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
— Demosthenes
Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
— Demosthenes
We believe whatever we want to believe.
— Demosthenes
We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
— Demosthenes
As a vessel is known by its sound whether it be cracked or not, so men are proved by their speeches whether they be wise or foolish.
— Demosthenes
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
— Demosthenes
I'll betide thee, say I, and may the Gods, or at least the Athenians, confound thee for a vile citizen and a vile third-rate actor! Read the evidence.
— Demosthenes
One believes in what one wants to believe in..
— Demosthenes
The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
— Demosthenes
What we wish, that we readily believe.
— Demosthenes
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
— Demosthenes
Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.
— Plutarch
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
— Demosthenes
When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'
— Plutarch
The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
— Demosthenes
The most noble title any child can have is Third.
— Demosthenes
The fact speak for themselves.
— 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.
— Demosthenes
Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long.
— Nathaniel Parker