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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.

Xenophon

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.
XENOPHON

Human Philosophy Truth
He 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.
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Beautiful Hope Marriage Struggle Woman
Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
XENOPHON

Game Yourself
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
XENOPHON

One Liner Success
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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Distance Guide Separate
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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Darkness Generosity Greatness Greedy People Success
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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Business Future Politics
Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Mistake People Reality
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
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
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
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Act Greatness Greedy Honesty Man Quick Rich
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself

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