Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
XENOPHONMost people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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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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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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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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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Let No One Fall Idle.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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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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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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I am a stranger in all countries.
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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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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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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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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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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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Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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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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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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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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