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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.

Xenophon

It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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
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
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
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
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
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
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material 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
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
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
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
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

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