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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

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

Person Training
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
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
Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
XENOPHON

Effort God Goodness Man
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
XENOPHON

Equality Material Yourself
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
XENOPHON

Expectation Opportunity
Let No One Fall Idle.
XENOPHON

Fall Oneself
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
XENOPHON

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

Beginning Character Myself
Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
XENOPHON

Believe Destiny Expectation Inspirational Yourself
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
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
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
XENOPHON

Commitment Himself Justice
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
XENOPHON

Confidence Strong

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