Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
XENOPHONHe had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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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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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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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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Let No One Fall Idle.
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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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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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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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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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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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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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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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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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