Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
XENOPHONIf 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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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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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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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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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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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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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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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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He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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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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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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Let No One Fall Idle.
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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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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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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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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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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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Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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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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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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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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