Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
XENOPHONWhen 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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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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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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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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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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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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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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Let No One Fall Idle.
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Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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