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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
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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Friendship Himself Man Willing
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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Guard Known Safety Suspicious
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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Goodness Reminder Reproach
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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God Image Justice Love Truth
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.
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Action Himself Proud Spirit
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
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Blessing Destroy Fortune Goodness
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
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Deal Greatness Oneself Thinking
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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Existence Money Need

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