Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
XENOPHONMisleaders 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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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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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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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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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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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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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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