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A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.

Xenophon

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
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
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
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
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
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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Game Yourself
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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Business Future Politics
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
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
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
Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Believe Destiny Expectation Inspirational Yourself
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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
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

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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