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And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.

Xenophon

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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Beautiful Hope Marriage Struggle Woman
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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Ourselves Perfection Rich Soul Yourself
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
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.
XENOPHON

People Philosophy Right Wrong
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
XENOPHON

Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
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Game Yourself
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
XENOPHON

Danger Quick Scare
Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Mistake People Reality
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Decision Moral Strength
Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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Effort God Goodness Man
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
And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.
XENOPHON

Care Health Remember Yourself
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
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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Human Philosophy Truth
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
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.
XENOPHON

Darkness Generosity Greatness Greedy People Success

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