It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
XENOPHONBattles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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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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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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If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
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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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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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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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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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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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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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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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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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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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Let No One Fall Idle.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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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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