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.
XENOPHONLet Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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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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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Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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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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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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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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A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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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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