"He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves"
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"He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright."
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"Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs."
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"Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses.""
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"Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others."
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"Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to."
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"So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence."
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"When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'"
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"Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune."
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"Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace."
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"For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words."
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"It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles."
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"Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it."
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"Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life."
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"Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world."
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"The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe."
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"There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice."
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"Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly."
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"Character is inured habit."
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"It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper."
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