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.
XENOPHONAnd 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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No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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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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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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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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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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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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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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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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Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.
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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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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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