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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.

Xenophon

Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
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
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
Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Mistake People Reality
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
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
Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
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Act Greatness Greedy Honesty Man Quick Rich
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
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

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