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

Xenophon

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
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
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
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
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
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
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
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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
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
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
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

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