In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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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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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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