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Xenophon QUOTES

  • Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

  • He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

  • Men are drawn closer to virtue when they see the dishonor that falls on misleaders.

  • Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.



  • The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  • Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

  • Men often fail to understand their own weaknesses, and their lack of self-knowledge can bring terrible disasters down on their own heads.

  • Men unite against none so readily as against those whom they see attempting to rule over them.


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