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Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.

Xenophon

Anything forced is not beautiful.
XENOPHON

Beautiful Force One Liner
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
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
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
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
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
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
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
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
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
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
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
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

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