Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
XENOPHONSeize the Unexpected Opportunity.
More Xenophon Quotes
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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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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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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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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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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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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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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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Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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