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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.

Xenophon

Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
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
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
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
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
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
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
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
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
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
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
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
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health

Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.

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