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1. "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." ~ Demosthenes
2. "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." ~ Demosthenes
3. "Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law." ~ Demosthenes
4. "As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish." ~ Demosthenes
5. "All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action." ~ Demosthenes
6. "No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods." ~ Demosthenes
7. "To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach." ~ Demosthenes
8. "The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves." ~ Demosthenes
9. "What we wish, that we readily believe." ~ Demosthenes
10. "Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states." ~ Demosthenes
11. "Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master." ~ Demosthenes
12. "Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states." ~ Demosthenes
13. "Was man wünscht, das glaubt auch jeder." ~ Demosthenes

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