I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.
XENOPHONAnd 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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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Let No One Fall Idle.
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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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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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He who marries a beautiful woman in hopes of being happy with her knows not but that even she herself may be the cause of all his uneasinesses.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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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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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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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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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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And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
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