Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
XENOPHONMost of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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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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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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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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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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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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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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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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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Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Let No One Fall Idle.
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Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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