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Xenophon

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
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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Education Growth Human Virtue Yourself
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material 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
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
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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Death Fall Myself Shame
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
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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Death Grief Injury Live Mad
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
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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Beautiful Hope Marriage Struggle Woman
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong

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