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

Xenophon

A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.
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Death Hate Lying Man Opportunity Remember
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
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
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
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
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
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
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
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
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
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
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

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