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Only money we must have, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

— Demosthenes I. First Olynthiac (-8)

δεῖ δὲ χρημάτων, καὶ ἄνευ τούτων οὐδὲν ἔστι γενέσθαι τῶν δεόντων.

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