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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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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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Human Philosophy Truth
Anything forced is not beautiful.
XENOPHON

Beautiful Force One Liner
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
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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Animal Freedom Himself
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
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
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
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
Brevity is the soul of command.
XENOPHON

Control One Liner Soul
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
XENOPHON

Alive Death Philosophy
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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Act Greatness Greedy Honesty Man Quick Rich
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Effort God Goodness Man
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

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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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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