Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
XENOPHONIf 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.
More Xenophon Quotes
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Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.
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And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
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Let No One Fall Idle.
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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.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.
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Brevity is the soul of command.
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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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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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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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