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"27 Xenophon Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 431 BC. Died: 354 BC | Historian | Philosopher | Soldier |

Anything forced is not beautiful

Anything forced Beautiful
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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.

Human being The truth Happened By chance
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If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

Consider Virtues Mankind Growth
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Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.

Moderation Things healthy Total abstinence Harmful
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There is a deep—and usually frustrated—desire in the heart of everyone to act with benevolence rather than selfishness, and one fine instance of generosity can inspire dozens more.

A deep Frustrated Benevolence
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.

Battles Decided more Morale Bodily strength
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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.

Man Cruelty Lies Opportunity
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Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people's affairs, never turn to examine themselves.

Most people Upon looking People's affairs Examine themselves
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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!

Men Enemy troops Stands between Place
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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.

People Right Wrong Nobody can
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The man who doesn't know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
The man Don't know Own ability Ignorant
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform

Small risk A general Contempt Lead
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

Eats Most pleasure Requires Sauce
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I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.

Will venture Teacher Pleasing Education
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency

Success Never Breed complacency
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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.

Whatever Determine Right Diligence endeavour
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I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.

Choosing Die Remain alive Freedom
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...men unite against none so readily as against those whom they see attempting to rule over them.
Men unite Readily Rule Over them
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The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

True test Leader Followers Adhere
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If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.

Covet riches Endevour Overcome Victorious
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.

A man Field Pant Farm
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen

Children Great men Opportunity Learning
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You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.

Neither numbers Strength Victory Assistance
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I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.

Impossible Remember Long poem Practice
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

Sweetest Sounds Praise
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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.

Excess Grief Dead Madness
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

Horse Beauty Tire Displays himself
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Xenophon Quotes & Sayings