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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.

Xenophon

Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
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
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
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
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
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
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
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
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
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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Beautiful Hope Marriage Struggle Woman
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
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
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

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