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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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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
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
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
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
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
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
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
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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Courage Deep Experience Fortune Kindness Myself
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
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
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
Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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Beginning Character Myself
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong

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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