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Brevity is the soul of command.

Xenophon

It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
XENOPHON

Grace Law Respect
Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
XENOPHON

Beginning Character Myself
And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.
XENOPHON

Care Health Remember Yourself
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.
XENOPHON

Beautiful Hope Marriage Struggle Woman
Anything forced is not beautiful.
XENOPHON

Beautiful Force One Liner
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
XENOPHON

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

Battle Decision Moral Strength
Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
XENOPHON

Himself Ignorance People Understand
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
Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
XENOPHON

Act Greatness Greedy Honesty Man Quick Rich
Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
XENOPHON

Game Yourself
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.
XENOPHON

Darkness Generosity Greatness Greedy People Success
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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
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
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success

Brevity is the soul of command.

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