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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Xenophon

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
Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.
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Business Future Politics
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
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
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
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
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
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
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
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Effort God Goodness Man
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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

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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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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