A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
XENOPHONLet Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
More Xenophon Quotes
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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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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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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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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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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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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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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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And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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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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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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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.
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