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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

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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
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
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
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
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
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
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
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
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
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
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
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

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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