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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.

Xenophon

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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People Philosophy Right Wrong
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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Game Yourself
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
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
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.
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Death Hate Lying Man Opportunity Remember
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
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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Care Health Remember 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
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself

Success Should Never Breed Complacency.

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