Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
XENOPHONIf you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Brevity is the soul of command.
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Let No One Fall Idle.
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And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.
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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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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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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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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
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