Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
XENOPHONMost people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
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When a horse wants to display himself, he lifts his neck up high and flexes his poll haughtily, and picks his legs up freely, and keeps his tail up.
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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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Let No One Fall Idle.
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Success always calls for greater generosity—though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed.
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
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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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Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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He who marries a beautiful woman in hopes of being happy with her knows not but that even she herself may be the cause of all his uneasinesses.
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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