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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
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
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
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
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
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
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
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Different Favor Forget Himself Reminder Talk
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
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
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

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