"The sweetest of all sounds is praise."
― Xenophon
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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."
― Xenophon
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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."
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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."
― Xenophon
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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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"For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer."
― Xenophon
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"Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful."
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"He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce."
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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!."
― Xenophon
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"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything."
― Xenophon
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