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Brevity is the soul of command.

Xenophon

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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Education Growth Human Virtue Yourself
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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Darkness Generosity Greatness Greedy People Success
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
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
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
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
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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Business Future Politics
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health

Brevity is the soul of command.

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