Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
XENOPHONPeople 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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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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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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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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Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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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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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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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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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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