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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.

Xenophon

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
XENOPHON

Death Grief Injury Live Mad
Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
XENOPHON

Ourselves Perfection Rich Soul 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
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
Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
XENOPHON

Beginning Character Myself
Brevity is the soul of command.
XENOPHON

Control One Liner Soul
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
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
XENOPHON

Harm Health
A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
XENOPHON

Animal Friendship Worth
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
XENOPHON

Ability Ignorance Man
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
XENOPHON

Danger Quick Scare
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
XENOPHON

Alive Death Philosophy
Let No One Fall Idle.
XENOPHON

Fall Oneself
Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
XENOPHON

Believe Destiny Expectation Inspirational Yourself
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

People Philosophy Right Wrong
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
XENOPHON

Commitment Himself Justice

Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.

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