Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
XENOPHONPerhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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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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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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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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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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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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I am a stranger in all countries.
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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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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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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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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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