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And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.

Xenophon

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

Commitment Himself Justice
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
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
XENOPHON

Ability Ignorance Man
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
XENOPHON

Expectation Opportunity
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
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
XENOPHON

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

Game Yourself
Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
XENOPHON

Mistake People Reality
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
XENOPHON

Harm Health
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
XENOPHON

Equality Material Yourself
Brevity is the soul of command.
XENOPHON

Control One Liner Soul
Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
XENOPHON

Himself Ignorance People Understand
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.
XENOPHON

Beautiful Hope Marriage Struggle Woman
Let No One Fall Idle.
XENOPHON

Fall Oneself
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
I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.
XENOPHON

Alive Choice Death Freedom Life Myself

And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.

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