Demosthenes

"He that is good will infallibly become great."

"Promise little and do much."

"What is demanded is that man shall be true to himself."

"One cannot live well without honor."

"The man who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

"You will find yourself by losing yourself in the service of others."

"To be idle is a short road to death."

"We must either find a way or make one."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"Persistence is what transforms belief into reality."

"That which the palm of your hand does not know, let it not say to the fingers."

"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

"The greater the lie, the more people will believe it."

"What a man gives to himself, nobody can take from him."

"There is no harbor safe in the storm of history."

"A man's own worst enemy cannot wish him more misfortune than he wishes himself."

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

"A liar should have a good memory."

"Do what you must, that you may do what you wish."

"There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness."

"A friendship that can end never really began."

"The greatest victories are those won without bloodshed."

"In a state of freedom, all men are free to be as lazy and as intoxicated as they wish."

"True peace is not merely the absence of war."

"Virtue is not given by money; but that money comes from virtue."

"No one can live happily who looks only to himself and turns everything to his own advantage."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing."

"A man's heart reveals his thoughts."

"Time is the most precious thing a man can spend."