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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?

Xenophon

Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
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Education Growth Human Virtue Yourself
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
Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Mistake People Reality
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
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
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.
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People Philosophy Right Wrong
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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
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
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
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
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

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