Lavori
Sul Chersoneso
DemosteneSeconda Olintiaca
DemosteneDemostene frasi celebri
dalla Vita di Demostene di Plutarco, edizione Fabbri Editori
“Chi fugge dalla battaglia può combattere un'altra volta.”
Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 107, pag. 144.
Demostene Frasi e Citazioni
“Gli uomini per loro natura sono portati a disprezzare i deboli e lusingare i forti.”
ed. Fabbri Editori
Orazioni
Sul Chersoneso, 11
Seconda Olintiaca, 23
51,19
Orazioni
51,11
Orazioni
Origine: Citato in Luciano Canfora, Storia della Letteratura Greca, Laterza, p. 377, ISBN 88-421-0205-9.
Demostene: Frasi in inglese
As quoted in Journal of the History of Ideas Vol. 1 (1940), p. 472
“It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 455.
As quoted in Dictionary of foreign phrases and classical quotations (1908) by Hugh Percy Jones, p. 140
“The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.”
As quoted in The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors (1853) by Everard Berkeley, p. 34
Third Olynthiac http://books.google.com/books?id=n4INAAAAYAAJ&q="the+easiest+thing+in+the+world+is+self-deceit+for+every+man+believes+what+he+wishes+though+the+reality+is+often+different"&pg=PA57#v=onepage, section 19 (349 BC), as translated by Charles Rann Kennedy (1852)
Variants:
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 255
There is nothing easier than self-delusion. Since what man desires, is the first thing he believes.
Olytnhiac II, 10 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0070%3Aspeech%3D2%3Asection%3D10
“Delivery, delivery, delivery.”
Response when asked to name the three most important components of rhetoric, as quoted in Institutio Oratoria (c. 95) by Quintilian; also in Unspoken : A Rhetoric of Silence (2004) by Cheryl Glenn, p. 150
Ad Leptinum 162, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations (Classical) (1897) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 511
“Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.”
Olynthiacs; Philippics (1930) as translated by James Herbert Vince, p. 11
“Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!”
Speech against Philip II of Macedon (351 BC), in Olynthiacs; Philippics (1930) as translated by James Herbert Vince, p. 99
