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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

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
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
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
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
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
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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Himself Ignorance People Understand
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
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
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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Death Grief Injury Live Mad
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
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

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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