Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
XENOPHONObedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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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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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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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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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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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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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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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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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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