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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.

Xenophon

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
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
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
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
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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
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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Care Health Remember Yourself
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
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

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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