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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.

Xenophon

Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
XENOPHON

Ourselves Perfection Rich Soul Yourself
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
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
XENOPHON

One Liner Success
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
XENOPHON

Person Training
In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
XENOPHON

Courage Deep Experience Fortune Kindness Myself
Let No One Fall Idle.
XENOPHON

Fall Oneself
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
XENOPHON

Death Grief Injury Live Mad
Brevity is the soul of command.
XENOPHON

Control One Liner Soul
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
XENOPHON

Confidence Strong
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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Beautiful Hope Marriage Struggle Woman
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
XENOPHON

Battle Decision Moral Strength
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!
XENOPHON

Alive Eat Enemy Man Place
Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
XENOPHON

Beginning Character Myself
People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.
XENOPHON

People Philosophy Right Wrong
Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Effort God Goodness Man
If I die innocent the shame will fall on those who are the cause of my death, since all sort of iniquity is attended with shame.
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Death Fall Myself Shame

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