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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
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
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
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
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
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
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
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
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
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
Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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Action Greatness Man Success Tendency
It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
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Abuse Impatience Listening Man Natural Pleasure Praise
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
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
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
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
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.
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Believe Consistency Easy Expectation State
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

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