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.
XENOPHONSuccess Should Never Breed Complacency.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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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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Success always calls for greater generosity—though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed.
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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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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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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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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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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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