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Brevity is the soul of command.

Xenophon

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

Battle Decision Moral Strength
I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.
XENOPHON

Alive Choice Death Freedom Life Myself
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
XENOPHON

One Liner Success
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
XENOPHON

Equality Material Yourself
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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Himself Ignorance People Understand
We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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Gratitude Kindness Man
A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
XENOPHON

Animal Friendship Worth
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
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
XENOPHON

Ability Ignorance Man
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
XENOPHON

Death Grief Injury Live Mad
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Expectation Opportunity
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Action Determination Yourself
Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
XENOPHON

Game Yourself

Brevity is the soul of command.

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