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He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.

Xenophon

Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
XENOPHON

Believe Destiny Expectation Inspirational Yourself
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
XENOPHON

Distance Guide Separate
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
In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
XENOPHON

Courage Deep Experience Fortune Kindness Myself
Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
XENOPHON

Effort God Goodness Man
He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
XENOPHON

Deserve Himself Victory
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
Let No One Fall Idle.
XENOPHON

Fall Oneself
Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
XENOPHON

Harm Health
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
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.
XENOPHON

Beautiful Hope Marriage Struggle Woman
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
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
XENOPHON

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

Beginning Character Myself

He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.

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