Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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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In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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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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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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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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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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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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Brevity is the soul of command.
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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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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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If I die innocent the shame will fall on those who are the cause of my death, since all sort of iniquity is attended with shame.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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