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.
XENOPHONEarly on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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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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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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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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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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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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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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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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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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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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And 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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