A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
XENOPHONLet No One Fall Idle.
More Xenophon Quotes
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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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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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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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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.
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I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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When a horse wants to display himself, he lifts his neck up high and flexes his poll haughtily, and picks his legs up freely, and keeps his tail up.
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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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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!
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
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