A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
XENOPHONWhatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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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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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.
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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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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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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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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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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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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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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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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