Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
XENOPHONBrevity is the soul of command.
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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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Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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When a horse wants to display himself, he lifts his neck up high and flexes his poll haughtily, and picks his legs up freely, and keeps his tail up.
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People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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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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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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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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Brevity is the soul of command.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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