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Brevity is the soul of command.

Xenophon

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
Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
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Ourselves Perfection Rich Soul Yourself
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
XENOPHON

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
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
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
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
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
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
He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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Deserve Himself Victory
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

Brevity is the soul of command.

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