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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.

Xenophon

Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
XENOPHON

Action Determination Yourself
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
XENOPHON

Commitment Himself Justice
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
Let No One Fall Idle.
XENOPHON

Fall Oneself
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.
XENOPHON

Death Fall Myself Shame
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.
XENOPHON

Darkness Generosity Greatness Greedy People Success
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
XENOPHON

Expectation Opportunity
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
XENOPHON

Grace Law Respect
Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
XENOPHON

Game Yourself
He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
XENOPHON

Deserve Himself Victory
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.
XENOPHON

Death Hate Lying Man Opportunity Remember
We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
XENOPHON

Gratitude Kindness Man
Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
XENOPHON

Believe Destiny Expectation Inspirational Yourself
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
XENOPHON

Ability Ignorance Man
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
XENOPHON

Education Growth Human Virtue Yourself
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

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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