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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.

Xenophon

Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
XENOPHON

Believe Destiny Expectation Inspirational Yourself
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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Himself Ignorance People Understand
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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 you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
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Education Growth Human Virtue Yourself
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
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
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
We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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Gratitude Kindness Man
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
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
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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Game Yourself
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect

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