Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
XENOPHONDo you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
More Xenophon Quotes
-
-
Anything forced is not beautiful.
XENOPHON -
Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.
XENOPHON -
He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
XENOPHON -
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
XENOPHON -
Seize the Unexpected Opportunity.
XENOPHON -
Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
XENOPHON -
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
XENOPHON -
We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
XENOPHON -
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
XENOPHON -
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 -
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 -
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
XENOPHON -
We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
XENOPHON -
Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
XENOPHON -
Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
XENOPHON






