Demosthenes

Puzzles

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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Demosthenes?

  • → Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
  • → Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
  • → Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
  • → The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Demosthenes.

  • → When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
  • → A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
  • → Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
  • → That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Demosthenes.

  • → Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
  • → Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
  • → A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
  • → Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Demosthenes. Which one?

  • → A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
  • → All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
  • → The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
  • → Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to Demosthenes?

  • → Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
  • → Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
  • → A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
  • → Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to Demosthenes?

  • → Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
  • → All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
  • → Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
  • → A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
  
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• Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Demosthenes.

  • → Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
  • → I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
  • → The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
  • → Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
  
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• One of the following quotations belongs to Demosthenes. Which one?

  • → The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
  • → 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.
  • → Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
  
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• Can you guess which one of these belongs to Demosthenes?

  • → What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
  • → A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
  • → Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
  • → Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
  
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• Try to identify the quote attributed to Demosthenes.

  • → The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
  • → The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
  • → Let each man exercise the art he knows.
  • → Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
  
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