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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.

Xenophon

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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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Deserve Himself Victory
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
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
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
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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Alive Choice Death Freedom Life Myself
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Effort God Goodness Man
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
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
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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Ability Ignorance Man
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy

Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.

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