Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
XENOPHONMost of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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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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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
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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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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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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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Brevity is the soul of command.
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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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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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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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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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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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