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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.

Xenophon

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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Courage Deep Experience Fortune Kindness Myself
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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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Business Future Politics
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
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
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
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
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
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
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Animal Friendship Worth
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself

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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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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