He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
XENOPHONHe had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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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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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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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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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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If I die innocent the shame will fall on those who are the cause of my death, since all sort of iniquity is attended with shame.
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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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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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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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Brevity is the soul of command.
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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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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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