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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.

Xenophon

We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
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 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 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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Care Health Remember Yourself
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
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
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
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
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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Distance Guide Separate
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
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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Deserve Himself Victory
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
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
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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Business Future Politics
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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Act Greatness Greedy Honesty Man Quick Rich

Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.

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