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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.

Xenophon

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
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.
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Care Health Remember Yourself
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
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
XENOPHON

Alive Death Philosophy
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
XENOPHON

Grace Law Respect
Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Believe Destiny Expectation Inspirational Yourself
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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
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
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
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
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice

Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.

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