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.
XENOPHONThe man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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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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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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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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Let No One Fall Idle.
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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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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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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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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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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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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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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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I am a stranger in all countries.
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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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