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

Xenophon

Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
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
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
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
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
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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Alive Choice Death Freedom Life Myself
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
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
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
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
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
He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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Deserve Himself Victory
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
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
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
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
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
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
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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

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