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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.

Xenophon

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
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
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
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
When a horse wants to display himself, he lifts his neck up high and flexes his poll haughtily, and picks his legs up freely, and keeps his tail up.
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Animal Freedom Himself
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
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
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
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
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
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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

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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