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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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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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
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
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
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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Human Philosophy Truth
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
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Ourselves Perfection Rich Soul 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
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
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
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong

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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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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