Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
XENOPHONYour game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
More Xenophon Quotes
-
-
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 -
A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
XENOPHON -
Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
XENOPHON -
Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
XENOPHON -
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 -
We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
XENOPHON -
Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
XENOPHON -
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
XENOPHON -
In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
XENOPHON -
Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
XENOPHON -
Let No One Fall Idle.
XENOPHON -
He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
XENOPHON -
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
XENOPHON -
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.
XENOPHON -
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
XENOPHON