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6 Demosthenes Quotes

Demosthenes offers sharp, reflective thoughts on how we trick ourselves, weigh past benefits, and remember favors.

Demosthenes quotes

  1. Delivery, delivery, delivery.

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

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

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  4. Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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  5. 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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  6. 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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