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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.

Xenophon

Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
XENOPHON

Beginning Character Myself
Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.
XENOPHON

Business Future Politics
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
XENOPHON

Ability Ignorance Man
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
XENOPHON

Action Determination Yourself
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
XENOPHON

Death Grief Injury Live Mad
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
XENOPHON

Danger Quick Scare
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
XENOPHON

Battle Decision Moral Strength
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
XENOPHON

Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
Brevity is the soul of command.
XENOPHON

Control One Liner Soul
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
XENOPHON

Expectation Opportunity
Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
XENOPHON

Ourselves Perfection Rich Soul Yourself
Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
XENOPHON

Game Yourself
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
XENOPHON

Change Opinion Wrong
Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
XENOPHON

Mistake People Reality
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.
XENOPHON

Human Philosophy Truth
If I die innocent the shame will fall on those who are the cause of my death, since all sort of iniquity is attended with shame.
XENOPHON

Death Fall Myself Shame

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 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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