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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.

Xenophon

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
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
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
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
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
XENOPHON

Grace Law Respect
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
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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Democracy Law Politics Violence
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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Death Fall Myself Shame
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
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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
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

Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.

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