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Anything forced is not beautiful.

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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
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
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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Distance Guide Separate
Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Believe Destiny Expectation Inspirational Yourself
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
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
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
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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Gratitude Kindness Man
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
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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Democracy Law Politics Violence
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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Alive Eat Enemy Man Place
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
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

Anything forced is not beautiful.

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