Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.
XENOPHONAnything forced is not beautiful.
More Xenophon Quotes
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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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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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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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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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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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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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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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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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Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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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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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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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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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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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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He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Let No One Fall Idle.
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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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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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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