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

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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
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
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
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
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
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
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
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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Beginning Character Myself

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