Poems List
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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Nascido em 384 a.C., Demóstenes superou desafios pessoais iniciais, incluindo a perda precoce de seu pai e a má gestão de sua herança, para se tornar um dos advogados e políticos mais influentes de Atenas. Ele se destacou por seus discursos poderosos e persuasivos, conhecidos como 'filípicas', nos quais alertava os atenienses sobre a ameaça macedônia e os exortava à resistência. Apesar de seus esforços, Atenas acabou caindo sob a influência macedônia. Demóstenes é lembrado por sua integridade, patriotismo e eloquência incomparável, sendo um símbolo da luta pela liberdade democrática.