Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
XENOPHONMen, 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!
More Xenophon Quotes
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
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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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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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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No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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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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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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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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