Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
XENOPHONIf you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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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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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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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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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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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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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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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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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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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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