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All 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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Greatness Opportunity Small
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
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
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
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Affection Deceive Easy Subtle
The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
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Change Fortune High Man Prosperity State
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
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

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