Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
XENOPHONNo 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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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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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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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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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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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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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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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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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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Let No One Fall Idle.
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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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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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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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I am a stranger in all countries.
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Battles 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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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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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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