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He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.

Xenophon

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

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

Commitment Himself Justice
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

Courage Deep Experience Fortune Kindness Myself
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
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
And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.
XENOPHON

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

Democracy Law Politics Violence
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
XENOPHON

Expectation Opportunity
Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.
XENOPHON

Business Future Politics
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
We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
XENOPHON

Gratitude Kindness Man
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
XENOPHON

Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
XENOPHON

Ability Ignorance Man
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
XENOPHON

Harm Health

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