Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
XENOPHONAnd 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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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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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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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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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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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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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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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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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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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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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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