Good Demosthenes Quotes & Sayings

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach. — Demosthenes

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. — Demosthenes

Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also. — Demosthenes

I think that one who has received a kindness ought to remember it all his life; but that the doer of the kindness should forget it once for all; if the former is to behave like a good man, the latter like one free from all meanness. To be always recalling and speaking of one's own benefactions is almost like upbraiding the recipients of them. — Demosthenes

Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great. — Demosthenes