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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.

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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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Game Yourself
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
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
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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Beginning Character Myself
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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Act Greatness Greedy Honesty Man Quick Rich
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
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
A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.
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Death Hate Lying Man Opportunity Remember
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
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

Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.

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