We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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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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And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.
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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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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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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Let No One Fall Idle.
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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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I am a stranger in all countries.
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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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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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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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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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