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.
XENOPHONYour game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
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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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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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If I die innocent the shame will fall on those who are the cause of my death, since all sort of iniquity is attended with shame.
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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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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Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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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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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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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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