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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
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
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
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
The fact speak for themselves.
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Fact Ourselves Talk
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
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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Ability Common Dangerous Man
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
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
The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
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Benefit Forget Man Remember
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State

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