Demosthenes
6 quotes.
Quotes by Demosthenes
- All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
- By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
- Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
- Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.
- Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
- The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.