Démosthenés (-384–-322 BC) ancient greek statesman and orator
Ad Leptinum 162, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations (Classical) (1897) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 511
“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”
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