And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
XENOPHONMost of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
More Xenophon Quotes
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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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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Let No One Fall Idle.
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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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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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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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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.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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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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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he’s never given an opportunity to show what he’s made of, no one will remember him when he dies.
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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.
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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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Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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