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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself 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
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
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
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Affection Deceive Easy Subtle
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
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

Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.

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