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Xenophon

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Xenophon
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Quote 1

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

Quote 2

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

Quote 3

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

Quote 4

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

Quote 5

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

Quote 6

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

Quote 7

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

Quote 8

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