Frases de Demóstenes

“Quando uma batalha está perdida, só os que fugirem podem combater em outra.”

“Pensem que as palavras a que não se segue nenhuma consequência são ditas para nada.”

“A constância no amor é uma bigorna que, quanto mais é batida, mais dura se torna.”

“Sabe-se que enquanto vivemos estamos mais ou menos expostos à inveja, mas depois da nossa morte os nossos inimigos deixam de nos odiar.”

“É necessário que os princípios de uma política sejam justos e verdadeiros.”

“Toda a vantagem obtida no passado é julgada à luz do resultado final.”

“Entrega, entrega, entrega.
— Démosthenés 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

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“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”

Demóstenes: Frases em inglês

“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.”

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

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“For a house, I take it, or a ship or anything of that sort must have its chief strength in its substructure; and so too in affairs of state the principles and the foundations must be truth and justice.”

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

“Delivery, delivery, delivery.”

Olytnhiac II, 10 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0070%3Aspeech%3D2%3Asection%3D10

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

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

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

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

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

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