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If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

Xenophon

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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
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Democracy Law Politics Violence
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
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
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
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
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
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
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
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

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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