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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

In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
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
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
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
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
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
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
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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Death Grief Injury Live Mad
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
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

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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