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Brevity is the soul of command.

Xenophon

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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
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
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
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
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
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.
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Human Philosophy Truth
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
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
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

Brevity is the soul of command.

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