Let No One Fall Idle.
XENOPHONIf you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
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A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
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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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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 the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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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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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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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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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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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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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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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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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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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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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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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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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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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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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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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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Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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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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