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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.

Xenophon

Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
XENOPHON

Person Training
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
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
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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Courage Deep Experience Fortune Kindness Myself
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
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
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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Democracy Law Politics Violence
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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Alive Choice Death Freedom Life Myself
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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People Philosophy Right Wrong
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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Distance Guide Separate
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
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

Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.

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