The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
XENOPHONAnyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
More Xenophon Quotes
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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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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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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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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I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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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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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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Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
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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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Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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