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Brevity is the soul of command.

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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
XENOPHON

Person Training
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
XENOPHON

Battle Decision Moral Strength
Brevity is the soul of command.
XENOPHON

Control One Liner Soul
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
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
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
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
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
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
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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Death Grief Injury Live Mad
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
He who marries a beautiful woman in hopes of being happy with her knows not but that even she herself may be the cause of all his uneasinesses.
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Beautiful Hope Marriage Struggle Woman
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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Gratitude Kindness 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

Brevity is the soul of command.

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