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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
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
Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, “How well he spoke” but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, “Let us march.
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Ourselves People Talk Time
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
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
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
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
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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Believe Easy General Man True
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
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
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Crack Fools Known Sound Wisdom

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