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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.

Xenophon

Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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Distance Guide Separate
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
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
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 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
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
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
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
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
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
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

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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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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