"You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are……" — Cyrus the Great
"You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness."
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Cyrus the Great
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12 Quotes by Cyrus the Great
Cyrus the Great has 12 quotes on this site.
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Diversity in counsel, unity in command.
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity.…
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Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it…
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O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who…
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Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively…
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In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who…
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All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks.
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We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.
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Do not suppose, my dearest sons, that when I have left you I shall be nowhere and no one. Even…
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A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.
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Even if the skies were shorter than my knees, I would not kneel.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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