A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
XENOPHONIt is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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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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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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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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Let No One Fall Idle.
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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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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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