Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
XENOPHONAnd in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
More Xenophon Quotes
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Anything forced is not beautiful.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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He who marries a beautiful woman in hopes of being happy with her knows not but that even she herself may be the cause of all his uneasinesses.
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Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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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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It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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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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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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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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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!
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In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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