Démosthenés: Man

Démosthenés was ancient greek statesman and orator. Explore interesting quotes on man.
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“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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As quoted in Journal of the History of Ideas Vol. 1‎ (1940), p. 472

“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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As quoted in Dictionary of foreign phrases and classical quotations (1908) by Hugh Percy Jones, p. 140

Forgetting

“The easiest thing in the world is self-deceit; for every man believes what he wishes, though the reality is often different.”

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Third Olynthiac http://books.google.com/books?id=n4INAAAAYAAJ&q="the+easiest+thing+in+the+world+is+self-deceit+for+every+man+believes+what+he+wishes+though+the+reality+is+often+different"&pg=PA57#v=onepage, section 19 (349 BC), as translated by Charles Rann Kennedy (1852)
Variants:
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 255
There is nothing easier than self-delusion. Since what man desires, is the first thing he believes.

World , Reality

“No man can tell what the future may bring forth, and small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”

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Ad Leptinum 162, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations (Classical) (1897) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 511

Future