Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
XENOPHONWhen 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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I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.
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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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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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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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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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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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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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I am a stranger in all countries.
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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Let No One Fall Idle.
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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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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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