Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
XENOPHONHe 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.
More Xenophon Quotes
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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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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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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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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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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Brevity is the soul of command.
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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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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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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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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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