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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.

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
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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Education Growth Human Virtue Yourself
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Commitment Himself Justice
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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Himself Ignorance People Understand
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Ability Ignorance Man
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
I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.
XENOPHON

Alive Choice Death Freedom Life Myself
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
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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Distance Guide Separate
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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One Liner Success
I am a stranger in all countries.
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Myself Nation
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material Yourself
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
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!
XENOPHON

Alive Eat Enemy Man Place
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
XENOPHON

Danger Quick Scare

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