And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
XENOPHONYour game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
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Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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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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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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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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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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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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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
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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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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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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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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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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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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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