It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
XENOPHONNothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
More Xenophon Quotes
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Let No One Fall Idle.
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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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Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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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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Brevity is the soul of command.
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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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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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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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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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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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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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