It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
XENOPHONThe man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
More Xenophon Quotes
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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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Let No One Fall Idle.
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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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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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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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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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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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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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
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A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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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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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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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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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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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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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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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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