It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
XENOPHONBattles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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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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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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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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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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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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If I die innocent the shame will fall on those who are the cause of my death, since all sort of iniquity is attended with shame.
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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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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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