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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.

Xenophon

Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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Distance Guide Separate
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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Human Philosophy Truth
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
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
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
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
I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.
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Alive Choice Death Freedom Life Myself
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
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong

Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.

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