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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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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
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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Himself Ignorance People Understand
Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Mistake People Reality
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
Brevity is the soul of command.
XENOPHON

Control One Liner Soul
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
Let No One Fall Idle.
XENOPHON

Fall Oneself
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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Education Growth Human Virtue Yourself
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
XENOPHON

Commitment Himself Justice
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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Alive Choice Death Freedom Life Myself
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
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
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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Death Grief Injury Live Mad
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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People Philosophy Right Wrong

We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.

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