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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.

Xenophon

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
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
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Education Growth Human Virtue Yourself
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
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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Death Hate Lying Man Opportunity Remember
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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Human Philosophy Truth
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
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
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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Distance Guide Separate
Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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Beginning Character Myself
Brevity is the soul of command.
XENOPHON

Control One Liner Soul
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
XENOPHON

Confidence Strong
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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Democracy Law Politics Violence
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
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
XENOPHON

Equality Material Yourself

Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.

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