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For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

Attila

It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield.
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Battle Condition Decision Fortunate Guess Potential
It takes less courage to criticize the decisions of others than to stand by your own.
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Courage Criticism Decision Stand Yourself
For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?
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Earth Empire Fortress Wide
Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak.
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Allow Destiny Determination Resort Weakness
There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow gain.
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Growth Myself Pass
Everybody has value; even if to serve as a bad example.
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Bad Example Serve Value
It’s not that I succeed, it’s that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents.
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Failure Horrible Parents Preference Success
Superficial goals lead to superficial results.
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Goal One Liner Result
Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.
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Day Enemy Greatness Power Small Yourself
Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.
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Death Weakness
If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place
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Himself Place Rank Removal
Chieftains must understand that the spirit of the law is greater than its letter.
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Greatness Law Letter Spirit Understand

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

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For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

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