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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.

Xenophon

And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.
XENOPHON

Care Health Remember Yourself
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
XENOPHON

Battle Decision Moral Strength
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
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
XENOPHON

Expectation Opportunity
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
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
XENOPHON

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

Gratitude Kindness Man
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
XENOPHON

Alive Death Philosophy
Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.
XENOPHON

Business Future Politics
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
XENOPHON

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

Distance Guide Separate
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
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.
XENOPHON

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

Ability Ignorance Man
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
XENOPHON

Person Training
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.
XENOPHON

Death Fall Myself Shame
Let No One Fall Idle.
XENOPHON

Fall Oneself
Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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Believe Destiny Expectation Inspirational Yourself
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
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Force Result
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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Equality Material 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
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
Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Mistake People Reality
I am a stranger in all countries.
XENOPHON

Myself Nation
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
XENOPHON

Grace Law Respect

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