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

Xenophon

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
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
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
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
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
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
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
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
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself

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