And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.
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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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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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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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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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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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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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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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
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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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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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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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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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