In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
XENOPHONWe call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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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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Let No One Fall Idle.
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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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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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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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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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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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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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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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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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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Brevity is the soul of command.
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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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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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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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