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.
XENOPHONYour game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
More Xenophon Quotes
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Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.
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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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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.
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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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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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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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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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Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!
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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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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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