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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.

Xenophon

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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Death Fall Myself Shame
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
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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Care Health Remember Yourself
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Believe Destiny Expectation Inspirational Yourself
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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Beginning Character Myself
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
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
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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Death Hate Lying Man Opportunity Remember
He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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Deserve Himself Victory
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
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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Animal Friendship Worth
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

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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