We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
XENOPHONEarly on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
More Xenophon Quotes
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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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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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Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
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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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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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When a horse wants to display himself, he lifts his neck up high and flexes his poll haughtily, and picks his legs up freely, and keeps his tail up.
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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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Brevity is the soul of command.
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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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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.
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Let No One Fall Idle.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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