In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
XENOPHONWe call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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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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Let No One Fall Idle.
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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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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