Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
XENOPHONMen, 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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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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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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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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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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Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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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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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.
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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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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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