Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
XENOPHONIn the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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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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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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Brevity is the soul of command.
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Let No One Fall Idle.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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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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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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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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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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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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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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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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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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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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