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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

Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion — Xenophon

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

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. — Xenophon

The man who doesn't know his own ability is ignorant of himself. — Xenophon

I don't know if I am a very good politician ... I'm not a good hater. — Nick Xenophon

The sweetest of all sounds is praise. — Xenophon

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. — Joseph Joubert

Anything forced is not beautiful — Xenophon

Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform. — Xenophon

In Australia there are not limits on what you can believe but there are limits on how you can behave. It's called the law, and no one is above it. — Nick Xenophon

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. — Xenophon

I am a stranger in all countries. — Xenophon

and in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law." "And is — Xenophon

Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth. — Xenophon

do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?" "It — Xenophon

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. — Xenophon

Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful. — Xenophon

What am I lying here for? ... We are lying here as though we had a chance of enjoying a quiet time ... Am I waiting until I become a little older? — Xenophon

Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises. — Plutarch

He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that...victory deserved the best-looking armour. — Xenophon

he who marries a beautiful woman in hopes of being happy with her knows not but that even she herself may be the cause of all his uneasinesses; — Xenophon

This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in," Xenophon said.
"I love stupid plans," said Eugenides. — Megan Whalen Turner

grinned. 'Xenophon taught me that victory is achieved by putting the thought of defeat into the heart of your enemy. To him goes the honour. — David Gemmell

Success Should Never Breed Complacency — Xenophon

It is no disgrace but honourable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids; — Xenophon

I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life. — Xenophon

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

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

A horse is a thing of beauty ... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor. — Xenophon

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

Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people's affairs, never turn to examine themselves. — Xenophon