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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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Success always calls for greater generosity—though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed.
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Darkness Generosity Greatness Greedy People Success
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
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
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
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
I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.
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Alive Choice Death Freedom Life Myself
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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Animal Freedom Himself
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.
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Death Hate Lying Man Opportunity Remember
Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Effort God Goodness Man
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
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
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

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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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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