Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
XENOPHONHe 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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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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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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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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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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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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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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Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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