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Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.

Xenophon

If I die innocent the shame will fall on those who are the cause of my death, since all sort of iniquity is attended with shame.
XENOPHON

Death Fall Myself Shame
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
XENOPHON

Force Result
He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
XENOPHON

Deserve Himself Victory
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
Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
XENOPHON

Battle Body Decision Moral Strength
I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.
XENOPHON

Alive Choice Death Freedom Life Myself
Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
XENOPHON

Commitment Himself Justice
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
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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Death Hate Lying Man Opportunity Remember
Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
XENOPHON

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

Alive Death Philosophy
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
It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
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Grace Law Respect
Brevity is the soul of command.
XENOPHON

Control One Liner Soul
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
Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
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Mistake People Reality

Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.

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