If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
XENOPHONPeople often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.
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A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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If I die innocent the shame will fall on those who are the cause of my death, since all sort of iniquity is attended with shame.
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He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
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I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.
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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
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People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.
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Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.
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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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