Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
XENOPHONObedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
More Xenophon Quotes
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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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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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Let No One Fall Idle.
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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.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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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.
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He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
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If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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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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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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Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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