As to what happened next, it is possible to maintain that the hand of heaven was involved, and also possible to say that when men are desperate no one can stand up to them.
Xenophon
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living
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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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A horse is a thing of beauty.. None will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
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The sweetest sound of all is praise.
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
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The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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You are well aware that it is not numbers or strength that bring the victories in war. No, it is when one side goes against the enemy with the gods' gift of a stronger morale that their adversaries, as a rule, cannot withstand them. I have noticed this point too, my friends, that in soldiering the people whose one aim is to keep alive usually find a wretched and dishonorable death, while the people who, realizing that death is the common lot of all men, make it their endeavour to die with honour, somehow seem more often to reach old age and to have a happier life when they are alive. These are facts which you too should realize (our situation demands it) and should show that you yourselves are brave men and should call on the rest to do likewise.
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No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.
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If the campaign is in summer the general must show himself greedy for his share of the sun and the heat, and in winter for the cold and the frost, and in all labours for toil and fatigue. This will help to make him beloved of his followers.
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The most delightful of all music, that of your own praises.
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