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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.

Xenophon

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
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
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
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
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
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
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
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
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
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
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
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health

The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.

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