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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.

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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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Act Greatness Greedy Honesty Man Quick Rich
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.
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People Philosophy Right Wrong
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
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
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
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
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
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
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
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong

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