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

Xenophon

Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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
Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Believe Destiny Expectation Inspirational 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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Ability Ignorance 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
Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!
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Alive Eat Enemy Man Place
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
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
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
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Democracy Law Politics Violence
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
No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.
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Human Philosophy Truth
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself

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