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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.

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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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Darkness Generosity Greatness Greedy People Success
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
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
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
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
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
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
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health

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