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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
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
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
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
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
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
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
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
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power

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