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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.

Xenophon

Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
XENOPHON

One Liner Success
He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.
XENOPHON

Deserve Himself Victory
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
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
I am a stranger in all countries.
XENOPHON

Myself Nation
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 no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.
XENOPHON

Grace Law Respect
Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.
XENOPHON

Confidence Strong
Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.
XENOPHON

Game Yourself
Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch.
XENOPHON

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

Alive Death Philosophy
Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.
XENOPHON

Effort God Goodness Man
In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.
XENOPHON

Danger Quick Scare
The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
XENOPHON

Ability Ignorance Man
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
XENOPHON

Distance Guide Separate
Let No One Fall Idle.
XENOPHON

Fall Oneself

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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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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