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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."

Xenophon on Best

More quotes about Best

• "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

  John Wooden on Best

• "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

  Thomas Jefferson on Best

• "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

  Theodore Roosevelt on Best

• "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."

  e. e. cummings on Best

• "In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."

  Dalai Lama on Best

More quotes by Xenophon

• "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."

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

• "Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy."

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