“Success always calls for greater generosity — though most pe…”

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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. Collecting boot is not an end itself, but only a means for building an empire. Riches would be of little use to us now — except as a means of winning new friends.”

— Cyrus the Great

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Title: Wikiquote: Cyrus the Great
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Great, Cyrus the. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Cyrus the Great. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great

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