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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.

Xenophon

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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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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Care Health Remember Yourself
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
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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Game Yourself
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
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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Alive Eat Enemy Man Place
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
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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Darkness Generosity Greatness Greedy People Success
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
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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Courage Deep Experience Fortune Kindness Myself
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Believe Destiny Expectation Inspirational 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

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 call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.

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