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If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

Xenophon

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
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
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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Act Greatness Greedy Honesty Man Quick Rich
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
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
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.
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Care Health Remember Yourself
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
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
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

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