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.
XENOPHONI will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.
More Xenophon Quotes
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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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.
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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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Let No One Fall Idle.
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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.
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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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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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
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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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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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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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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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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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And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.
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Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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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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