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

Beginning Character Myself
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!
XENOPHON

Alive Eat Enemy Man Place
And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
XENOPHON

Democracy Law Politics Violence
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.
XENOPHON

Animal Freedom Himself
Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
XENOPHON

Effort God Goodness Man
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
XENOPHON

Commitment Himself Justice
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
XENOPHON

Distance Guide Separate
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
XENOPHON

Grace Law Respect
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Wrong
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
XENOPHON

Equality Material Yourself
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
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
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.
XENOPHON

Human Philosophy Truth
A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
XENOPHON

Animal Friendship Worth
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
XENOPHON

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

Ability Ignorance Man

We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.

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