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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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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
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Believe Destiny Expectation Inspirational Yourself
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
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
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
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
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
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
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength

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

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