Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
XENOPHONExcess 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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Brevity is the soul of command.
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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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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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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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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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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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Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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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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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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I am a stranger in all countries.
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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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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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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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