In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
XENOPHONAnyone 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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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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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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Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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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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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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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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