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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

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
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
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
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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Act Greatness Greedy Honesty Man Quick Rich
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
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
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
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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Death Grief Injury Live Mad
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
Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Effort God Goodness Man
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
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
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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Animal Freedom Himself

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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