Xenophon on people
Xenophon47 quotes“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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XenophonXenophon I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.
XenophonXenophon Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
XenophonXenophon He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
XenophonXenophon And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
XenophonXenophon Let No One Fall Idle.
XenophonXenophon In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
XenophonXenophon Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
XenophonXenophon It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
XenophonXenophon We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
XenophonXenophon Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
XenophonXenophon Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
XenophonXenophon Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
XenophonXenophon Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
XenophonXenophon 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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