Anything forced is not beautiful.
XENOPHONWe’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
More Xenophon Quotes
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Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.
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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.
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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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And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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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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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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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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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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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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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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