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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
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
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
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
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
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
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
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
People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.
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People Philosophy Right Wrong
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
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
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
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
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Effort God Goodness Man

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