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.
XENOPHONBattles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
More Xenophon Quotes
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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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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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.
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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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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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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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.
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Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
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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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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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