A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
XENOPHONWe’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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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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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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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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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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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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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Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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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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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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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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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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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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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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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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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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