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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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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
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
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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.
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Death Fall Myself Shame
Success always calls for greater generosity—though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed.
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Darkness Generosity Greatness Greedy People Success
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
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
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
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
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
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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Alive Choice Death Freedom Life Myself
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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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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