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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.

Xenophon

We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
XENOPHON

Alive Death Philosophy
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
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
XENOPHON

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

Beginning Character Myself
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
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
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
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
XENOPHON

Force Result
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
It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
XENOPHON

Change Opinion Wrong
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
XENOPHON

Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
XENOPHON

Distance Guide Separate
I am a stranger in all countries.
XENOPHON

Myself Nation
Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
XENOPHON

Equality Material Yourself
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.
XENOPHON

Human Philosophy Truth

Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.

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