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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?

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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
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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Democracy Law Politics Violence
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
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
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.
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Business Future Politics
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
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
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
He who marries a beautiful woman in hopes of being happy with her knows not but that even she herself may be the cause of all his uneasinesses.
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Beautiful Hope Marriage Struggle Woman
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
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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Death Fall Myself Shame
We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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Gratitude Kindness Man
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
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
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
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Game Yourself
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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
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
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

Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?

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