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Brevity is the soul of command.

Xenophon

Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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Beginning Character Myself
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
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
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
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.
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Business Future Politics
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.
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Care Health Remember Yourself
He who marries a beautiful woman in hopes of being happy with her knows not but that even she herself may be the cause of all his uneasinesses.
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Beautiful Hope Marriage Struggle Woman
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
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!
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Alive Eat Enemy Man Place
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect

Brevity is the soul of command.

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