Demostenes cytaty

Demostenes – najsłynniejszy mówca grecki, polityk, zażarty przeciwnik macedońskiej dominacji w świecie greckim.

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Demostenes: 29   Cytatów 12   Polubień

Demostenes słynne cytaty

Demostenes cytaty

„Często trudniej skarby zachować, niż je zdobyć”

Źródło: Olynth 1,23

„Prawo jest duszą państwa, duszą prawa jest sumienie, a duszą sumienia bojaźń boża.”

Źródło: Przykazania etyki prawniczej: księga myśli, norm i rycin, oprac. Roman Tokarczyk, wyd. Wolters Kluwer Polska, s. 52.

Demostenes: Cytaty po angielsku

“It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.”

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 455.

“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.”

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

“The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.”

As quoted in The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors (1853) by Everard Berkeley, p. 34

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

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.

“Delivery, delivery, delivery.”

Response when asked to name the three most important components of rhetoric, as quoted in Institutio Oratoria (c. 95) by Quintilian; also in Unspoken : A Rhetoric of Silence (2004) by Cheryl Glenn, p. 150

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

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

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

Olynthiacs; Philippics (1930) as translated by James Herbert Vince, p. 11

“Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!”

Speech against Philip II of Macedon (351 BC), in Olynthiacs; Philippics (1930) as translated by James Herbert Vince, p. 99

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