Demóstenes Frases famosas
“É extremamente fácil enganar a si mesmo; pois o homem geralmente acredita no que deseja.”
citado em "Frases Geniais" - Página 23, PAULO BUCHSBAUM, JAGUAR - Ediouro Publicações, 2004, ISBN 8500015330, 9788500015335440 páginas
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“Parece-me que o bom cidadão deve preferir as palavras que salvam às palavras que agradam.”
citado em "Faça Uma Revolução Possível" - Página 90, PADRE BETO - Marco Zero, 2007, ISBN 8527904284, 9788527904285168 páginas
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Citações de homens de Demóstenes
Demóstenes frases e citações
“Os grandes sucessos dependem de incidentes pequenos.”
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Dictionary of quotations (classical), compilado por Thomas Benfield Harbottle, Editora S. Sonnenschein,1897 - 648 páginas
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Demóstenes: Frases em inglês
As quoted in Journal of the History of Ideas Vol. 1 (1940), p. 472
“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.
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
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)
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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.
Olytnhiac II, 10 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0070%3Aspeech%3D2%3Asection%3D10
“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
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