Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
XENOPHONYour game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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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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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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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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Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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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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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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Brevity is the soul of command.
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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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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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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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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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