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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.

Xenophon

Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.
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Care Health Remember 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 no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
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
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
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
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
Brevity is the soul of command.
XENOPHON

Control One Liner Soul
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
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Act Greatness Greedy Honesty Man Quick Rich
We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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Gratitude Kindness Man
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
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
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
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
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
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
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

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