Let No One Fall Idle.
XENOPHONSeparated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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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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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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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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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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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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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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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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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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