“Another was, "Watch your opportunity."”

Pittacus, 7.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages

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Diogenes Laërtius 107
biographer of ancient Greek philosophers 180–240

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