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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

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 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 am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
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
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
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
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
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
Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Effort God Goodness Man
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
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
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
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

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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