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

Xenophon

Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
XENOPHON

Equality Material Yourself
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
XENOPHON

Force Result
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Danger Quick Scare
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
XENOPHON

Death Grief Injury Live Mad
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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Alive Choice Death Freedom Life Myself
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!
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Alive Eat Enemy Man Place
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
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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Darkness Generosity Greatness Greedy People Success
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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Beautiful Hope Marriage Struggle Woman
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
Brevity is the soul of command.
XENOPHON

Control One Liner Soul
Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
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Himself Ignorance People Understand
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Mistake People Reality
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

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