Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
DEMOSTHENESAll speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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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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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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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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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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The fact speak for themselves.
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