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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.

Herodotus

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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Inspirational Possible Time
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.
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Body Food Health Soul
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom

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