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Quotes from In Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War — Cyrus the Great

600 BC–530 BC

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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth — these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die.

In Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War (2006)

Success always calls for greater generosity — though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed. Collecting boot is not an end itself, but only a means for building an empire. Riches would be of little use to us now — except as a means of winning new friends.

In Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War (2006)

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