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Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.

Xenophon

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
XENOPHON

Courage Deep Experience Fortune Kindness Myself
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
He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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Deserve Himself Victory
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
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
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
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
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
Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
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Game Yourself
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
XENOPHON

One Liner Success

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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