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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.

Xenophon

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
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
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
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
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 Body 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
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
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
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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
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
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner

The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.

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