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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!

Xenophon

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
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
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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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Business Future Politics
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
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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People Philosophy Right Wrong
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
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
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
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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

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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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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