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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

A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
XENOPHON

Animal Friendship Worth
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
XENOPHON

Change Opinion Wrong
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
XENOPHON

Person Training
Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
XENOPHON

Act Greatness Greedy Honesty Man Quick Rich
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
We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
XENOPHON

Gratitude Kindness Man
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
XENOPHON

Grace Law Respect
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
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
XENOPHON

Alive Death Philosophy
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.
XENOPHON

Beautiful Hope Marriage Struggle Woman
In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
XENOPHON

Courage Deep Experience Fortune Kindness Myself
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
XENOPHON

Harm Health
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
XENOPHON

Education Growth Human Virtue Yourself
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
And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
XENOPHON

Democracy Law Politics Violence
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

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