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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.

Xenophon

I am a stranger in all countries.
XENOPHON

Myself Nation
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
Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
XENOPHON

Himself Ignorance People Understand
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
XENOPHON

Confidence Strong
Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
XENOPHON

Game Yourself
Brevity is the soul of command.
XENOPHON

Control One Liner Soul
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.
XENOPHON

Death Hate Lying Man Opportunity Remember
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
XENOPHON

Person Training
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
XENOPHON

Force Result
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
XENOPHON

Action Determination Yourself
Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
XENOPHON

Act Greatness Greedy Honesty Man Quick Rich
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
XENOPHON

Change Opinion Wrong
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
Let No One Fall Idle.
XENOPHON

Fall Oneself
Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
XENOPHON

One Liner Success

In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.

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