The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
XENOPHONPerhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
More Xenophon Quotes
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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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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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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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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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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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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 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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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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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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Let No One Fall Idle.
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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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