And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
XENOPHONSuccess Should Never Breed Complacency.
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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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.
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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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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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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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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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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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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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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