Demosthenes

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

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

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

"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. "

"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. "

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

"The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true. "

"The fact speak for themselves. "

"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. "

"There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self. "

"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots -- suspicion. "

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

"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. "