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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
XENOPHON

Alive Death Philosophy
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
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
XENOPHON

Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
XENOPHON

Gratitude Kindness Man
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
Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
XENOPHON

Game Yourself
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
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
XENOPHON

Ability Ignorance Man
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
XENOPHON

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

Beginning Character Myself
Brevity is the soul of command.
XENOPHON

Control One Liner Soul
Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
XENOPHON

Effort God Goodness Man

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