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

Xenophon

Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Believe Destiny Expectation Inspirational Yourself
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
Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Effort God Goodness Man
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
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
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
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
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
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
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
Success always calls for greater generosity—though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed.
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Darkness Generosity Greatness Greedy People Success
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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Distance Guide Separate
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
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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Animal Freedom Himself
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
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle 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
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity

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