Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
XENOPHONObedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
XENOPHONModeration 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.
XENOPHONNothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
XENOPHONWhen 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.
XENOPHONDo you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
XENOPHONIn my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
XENOPHONBattles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
XENOPHONAnd even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.
XENOPHONWhether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.
XENOPHONWe call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
XENOPHONHe had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
XENOPHONSeparated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
XENOPHONYour game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
XENOPHONPeople often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.
XENOPHONI will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.
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