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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.

Xenophon

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
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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Distance Guide Separate
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
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
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
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
Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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Beginning Character Myself
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
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
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
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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Animal Friendship Worth
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
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
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.
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Death Hate Lying Man Opportunity Remember
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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Alive Choice Death Freedom Life Myself
We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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Gratitude Kindness Man
And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
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Democracy Law Politics Violence
He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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Deserve Himself Victory

In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.

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