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!
XENOPHONWhether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.
More Xenophon Quotes
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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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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.
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Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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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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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.
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