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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.

Xenophon

He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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Deserve Himself Victory
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
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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Alive Eat Enemy Man Place
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
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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Alive Choice Death Freedom Life Myself
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
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
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
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
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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Darkness Generosity Greatness Greedy People Success
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
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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Animal Freedom Himself
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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Gratitude Kindness Man
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
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
Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Believe Destiny Expectation Inspirational Yourself
Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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Beginning Character Myself
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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Business Future Politics
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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Ourselves Perfection Rich Soul Yourself
In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
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Courage Deep Experience Fortune Kindness Myself
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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Death Fall Myself Shame
Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Effort God Goodness Man
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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Distance Guide Separate

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