Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
XENOPHONWhether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.
More Xenophon Quotes
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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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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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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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Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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When a horse wants to display himself, he lifts his neck up high and flexes his poll haughtily, and picks his legs up freely, and keeps his tail up.
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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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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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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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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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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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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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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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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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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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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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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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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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Let No One Fall Idle.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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