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.
XENOPHONPerhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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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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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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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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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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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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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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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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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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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
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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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I am a stranger in all countries.
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