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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.

Xenophon

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
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
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
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
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
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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Alive Choice Death Freedom Life Myself
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
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

Courage Deep Experience Fortune Kindness Myself
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
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
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Mistake People Reality
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
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity

The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.

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