Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
XENOPHONBattles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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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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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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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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Let No One Fall Idle.
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He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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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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Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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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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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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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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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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