Xenophon

Xenophon (c. 420-350 BCE)

"Let us be the ones who first arouse others to demonstrate their valour. Prove yourselves the best possible officers! Prove yourselves more worthy of command than your commanders!"

• Anabasis Kyrou (Upcountry March of Cyrus, Book III, section 1) by Xenophon and translated by Robin Waterfield (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).

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