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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.

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.
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Courage Deep Experience Fortune Kindness Myself
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
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
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
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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Gratitude Kindness Man
And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.
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Care Health Remember Yourself
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
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
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
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
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Animal Friendship Worth
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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Death Fall Myself Shame
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
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

Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.

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