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Xenophon

Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Mistake People Reality
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
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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Darkness Generosity Greatness Greedy People Success
Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Effort God Goodness Man
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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Human Philosophy Truth
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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Himself Ignorance People Understand
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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Democracy Law Politics Violence
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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Alive Eat Enemy Man Place
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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People Philosophy Right Wrong
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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Courage Deep Experience Fortune Kindness Myself
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
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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Alive Choice Death Freedom Life Myself
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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Beginning Character Myself

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