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

Xenophon

Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
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
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
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
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
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.
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Human Philosophy Truth
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
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man

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

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