„Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true.“— Démosthenés
„Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence... The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.“— Démosthenés
„Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.“— Démosthenés
„As a vessel is known by its sound whether it be cracked or not, so men are proved by their speeches whether they be wise or foolish.“— Démosthenés
„Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each me wishes, that he also believes is true.“— Démosthenés
„I'll betide thee, say I, and may the Gods, or at least the Athenians, confound thee for a vile citizen and a vile third-rate actor! Read the evidence.“— Démosthenés
„I think that one who has received a kindness ought to remember it all his life; but that the doer of the kindness should forget it once for all; if the former is to behave like a good man, the latter like one free from all meanness. To be always recalling and speaking of one's own benefactions is almost like upbraiding the recipients of them.“— Démosthenés
„For the Athenians of that day did not look for an orator or a general who would enable them to live in happy servitude; they cared not to live at all, unless they might live in freedom. For every one of them felt that he had come into being, not for his father and his mother alone, but also for his country. And wherein lies the difference? He who thinks he was born for his parents alone awaits the death which destiny assigns him in the course of nature: but he who thinks he was born for his country also will be willing to die, that he may not see her in bondage, and will look upon the outrages and the indignities that he must needs bear in a city that is in bondage as more to be dreaded than death.“— Démosthenés
