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Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
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Act Greatness Greedy Honesty Man Quick Rich
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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Animal Freedom Himself
We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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Gratitude Kindness Man
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
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
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
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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Business Future Politics
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
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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Animal Friendship Worth
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
Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Believe Destiny Expectation Inspirational Yourself
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

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