Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
XENOPHONHe 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.
More Xenophon Quotes
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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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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Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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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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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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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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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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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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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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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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I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.
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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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