Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
XENOPHONNo 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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I am a stranger in all countries.
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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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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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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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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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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Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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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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