Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
XENOPHONDo you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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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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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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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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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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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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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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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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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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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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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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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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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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