Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
XENOPHONA 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.
More Xenophon Quotes
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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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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.
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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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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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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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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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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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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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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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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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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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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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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 am a stranger in all countries.
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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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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Brevity is the soul of command.
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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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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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