black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

Xenophon

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
XENOPHON

Education Growth Human Virtue Yourself
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
XENOPHON

Change Opinion Wrong
In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
XENOPHON

Courage Deep Experience Fortune Kindness Myself
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
Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
XENOPHON

Ourselves Perfection Rich Soul Yourself
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
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
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
XENOPHON

Ability Ignorance Man
Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
XENOPHON

Beginning Character Myself
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.
XENOPHON

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

Grace Law Respect
Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
XENOPHON

Believe Destiny Expectation Inspirational Yourself
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
XENOPHON

Commitment Himself Justice
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
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
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.
XENOPHON

People Philosophy Right Wrong
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
XENOPHON

Danger Quick Scare
I am a stranger in all countries.
XENOPHON

Myself Nation
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
XENOPHON

Distance Guide Separate
Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!
XENOPHON

Alive Eat Enemy Man Place
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
XENOPHON

Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
If I die innocent the shame will fall on those who are the cause of my death, since all sort of iniquity is attended with shame.
XENOPHON

Death Fall Myself Shame
Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
XENOPHON

Mistake People Reality
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
XENOPHON

Equality Material Yourself
No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.
XENOPHON

Human Philosophy Truth
Brevity is the soul of command.
XENOPHON

Control One Liner Soul
Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.
XENOPHON

Business Future Politics

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Xenophon Quotes