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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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Care Health Remember Yourself
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
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
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
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.
XENOPHON

Human Philosophy Truth
A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
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Animal Friendship Worth
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
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
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
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
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
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
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
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
And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
XENOPHON

Democracy Law Politics Violence
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
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
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect

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