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.
XENOPHONEarly on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
More Xenophon Quotes
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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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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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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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And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
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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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Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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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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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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