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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
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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Act Greatness Greedy Honesty Man Quick Rich
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
XENOPHON

Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
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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Human Philosophy Truth
Let No One Fall Idle.
XENOPHON

Fall Oneself
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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Ourselves Perfection Rich Soul Yourself
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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Death Grief Injury Live Mad
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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Business Future Politics
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
Anything forced is not beautiful.
XENOPHON

Beautiful Force One Liner
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
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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Beautiful Hope Marriage Struggle Woman

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