It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
XENOPHONExcess 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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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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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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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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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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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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Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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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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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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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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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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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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