We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
XENOPHONSeparated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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Most 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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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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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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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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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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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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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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Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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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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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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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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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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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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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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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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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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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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