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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

Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
XENOPHON

Expectation Opportunity
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
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
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
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
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
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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Game Yourself
Anything forced is not beautiful.
XENOPHON

Beautiful Force One Liner
And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.
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Care Health Remember Yourself
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
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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Animal Freedom Himself
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
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
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

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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