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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.

Xenophon

A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
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Animal Friendship Worth
Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Mistake People Reality
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
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
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
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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Game Yourself
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
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself

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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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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