We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
XENOPHONMost of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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If I die innocent the shame will fall on those who are the cause of my death, since all sort of iniquity is attended with shame.
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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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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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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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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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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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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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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Let No One Fall Idle.
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People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.
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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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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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