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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.

Xenophon

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
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Education Growth Human Virtue Yourself
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance 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
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 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
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
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
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
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
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
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health

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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