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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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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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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Courage Deep Experience Fortune Kindness Myself
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
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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Darkness Generosity Greatness Greedy People Success
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
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
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
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 the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
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
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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Alive Eat Enemy Man Place
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
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
People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.
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People Philosophy Right Wrong
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
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
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
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
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Believe Destiny Expectation Inspirational Yourself

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