Xenophon on action
Xenophon47 quotes“Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.”
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
XenophonXenophon Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
XenophonXenophon A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
XenophonXenophon 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.
XenophonXenophon Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
XenophonXenophon Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
XenophonXenophon I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.
XenophonXenophon Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
XenophonXenophon He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
XenophonXenophon And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
XenophonXenophon Let No One Fall Idle.
XenophonXenophon In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
XenophonXenophon Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
XenophonXenophon It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
XenophonXenophon We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
XenophonXenophon Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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