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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?

Xenophon

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
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
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Himself Ignorance People Understand
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
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
Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.
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Business Future Politics
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
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
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
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
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
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
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong

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