And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
XENOPHONBattles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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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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In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
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Let No One Fall Idle.
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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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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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