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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.

Xenophon

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
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Education Growth Human Virtue Yourself
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
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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Death Grief Injury Live Mad
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
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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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Care Health Remember Yourself
Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Mistake People Reality
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
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
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
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health

Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.

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