Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
XENOPHONBrevity is the soul of command.
More Xenophon Quotes
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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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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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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.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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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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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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I am a stranger in all countries.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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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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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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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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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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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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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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