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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.

Xenophon

The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
XENOPHON

Ability Ignorance Man
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
XENOPHON

Distance Guide Separate
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
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.
XENOPHON

Beautiful Hope Marriage Struggle Woman
We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
XENOPHON

Gratitude Kindness Man
Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
XENOPHON

Himself Ignorance People Understand
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
XENOPHON

Danger Quick Scare
Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
XENOPHON

Ourselves Perfection Rich Soul Yourself
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
XENOPHON

Alive Death Philosophy
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
XENOPHON

Death Grief Injury Live Mad
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
XENOPHON

Person Training
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
XENOPHON

Harm Health
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.
XENOPHON

Darkness Generosity Greatness Greedy People Success
Brevity is the soul of command.
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Control One Liner Soul
Let No One Fall Idle.
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Fall Oneself
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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Animal Friendship Worth

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