He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
XENOPHONSuccess Should Never Breed Complacency.
More Xenophon Quotes
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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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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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Brevity is the soul of command.
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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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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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Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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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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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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