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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.

Xenophon

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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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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Himself Ignorance People Understand
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
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
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
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
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
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
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
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
And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
XENOPHON

Democracy Law Politics Violence
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
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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Human Philosophy Truth
Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Mistake People Reality
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength

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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