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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.

Xenophon

Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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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Alive Eat Enemy Man Place
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
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.
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Business Future Politics
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
He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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Deserve Himself Victory
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
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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Ourselves Perfection Rich Soul Yourself
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
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
Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Believe Destiny Expectation Inspirational Yourself
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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Game Yourself
And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
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Democracy Law Politics Violence

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