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

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
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
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Animal Friendship Worth
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
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
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
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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Beginning Character Myself
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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Death Grief Injury Live Mad
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
When a horse wants to display himself, he lifts his neck up high and flexes his poll haughtily, and picks his legs up freely, and keeps his tail up.
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Animal Freedom Himself
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
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
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 people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Mistake People Reality
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
A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.
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Death Hate Lying Man Opportunity Remember
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
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
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
Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!
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Alive Eat Enemy Man Place
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man

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

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