Xenophon Quotes

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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Alive Eat Enemy Man Place
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Harm Health
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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Beautiful Hope Marriage Struggle Woman
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
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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Courage Deep Experience Fortune Kindness Myself
Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Beautiful Force One Liner
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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Death Grief Injury Live Mad
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
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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Business Future Politics
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Alive Death Philosophy
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
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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Education Growth Human Virtue Yourself
Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Mistake People Reality
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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Human Philosophy Truth
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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People Philosophy Right Wrong
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul

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