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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.

Xenophon

Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
XENOPHON

Action Determination Yourself
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
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
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
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
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Act Greatness Greedy Honesty Man Quick Rich
If I die innocent the shame will fall on those who are the cause of my death, since all sort of iniquity is attended with shame.
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Death Fall Myself Shame
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
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
No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.
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Human Philosophy Truth
A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.
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Death Hate Lying Man Opportunity Remember
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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.
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Darkness Generosity Greatness Greedy People Success
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health

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