Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
XENOPHONIn 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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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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He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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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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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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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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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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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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Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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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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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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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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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