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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.

Xenophon

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
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
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
Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Effort God Goodness Man
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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Alive Choice Death Freedom Life Myself
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
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
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
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
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
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
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
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
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
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

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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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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