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

Xenophon

Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
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
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
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
Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Effort God Goodness Man
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
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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Alive Eat Enemy Man Place
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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Beautiful Hope Marriage Struggle Woman
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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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.

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