Quote by Demosthenes (384 BC-322 BC)

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

• Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

• All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

• Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

• 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.

• He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.