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"Our character develops with endurance of every circumstance."
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Personal Development
"Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight."
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Personal Development
"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much."
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Personal Development
"Conscience does make cowards of us all."
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Personal Development
"Sin is all wrong doing."
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Personal Development
"Be thou as chaste as ice as pure as snow thou shalt not escape calumny."
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Personal Development
"Good and evil are both fundamental features of the human mind."
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Personal Development
"She led the way. Eyeless sockets of the dead seemed to stare at them as they passed. "These are cool," Dan decided. "Maybe I could-""No, Dan," Amy said. "You can't collect human bones.""Awww."
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Personal Development
"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."
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Personal Development
"The kind of value system prevailing in a country determines the country's reaction and view on corruption."
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"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."
Leadership
"Necessity... the mother of invention."
Innovation
"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."
Politics
"Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I " equally ignorant " do not believe [that I know anything]."
Knowledge
"Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them."
Duty
"Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any."
Excellence
"Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service."
War
"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."
Humor
"Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences."
Wisdom
"Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a loftier tower which may he a fortress to me all my days? For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit there is none, but the pain and loss on the other hand are unmistakable. But if, though unjust, I acquire the reputation of justice, a heavenly life is promised to me. Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself."
Philosophy
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