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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.

Xenophon

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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Animal Friendship Worth
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.
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Control One Liner Soul
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.
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People Philosophy Right Wrong
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
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
In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
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Courage Deep Experience Fortune Kindness Myself
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
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
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
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body 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

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