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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.

Xenophon

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
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
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
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
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
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
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
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
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
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
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
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
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
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

Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.

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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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