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.
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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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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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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Brevity is the soul of command.
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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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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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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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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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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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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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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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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