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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.

Xenophon

Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
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
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
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
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
A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.
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Death Hate Lying Man Opportunity Remember
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
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
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
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
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
Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
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Ourselves Perfection Rich Soul Yourself
Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
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Game Yourself
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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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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