It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
XENOPHONBrevity is the soul of command.
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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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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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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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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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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
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