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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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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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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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Brevity is the soul of command.
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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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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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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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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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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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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