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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.

Xenophon

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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
XENOPHON

Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
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
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
XENOPHON

Distance Guide Separate
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
Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
XENOPHON

Game Yourself
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
XENOPHON

Action Determination Yourself
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
XENOPHON

Grace Law Respect
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
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Person Training
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
XENOPHON

Ability Ignorance Man
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
XENOPHON

Alive Death Philosophy
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
XENOPHON

Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
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
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
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
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Confidence Strong

Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.

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