Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
XENOPHONMen, 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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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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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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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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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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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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Let No One Fall Idle.
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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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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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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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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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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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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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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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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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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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Brevity is the soul of command.
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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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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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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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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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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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