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Moreover Cyrus’s behaviour towards all who came to him from the king’s court was such that, when he sent them away again, they were better friends to himself than to the king his brother. Nor did he neglect the barbarians in his own service; but trained them, at once to be capable as warriors and devoted adherents of himself.
Xenophon • The Persian Expedition
Great philosophers, historians, and orators often were involved in one way or another with soldiers and warriors. Aristotle (384–322 BC) was a tutor of Alexander the Great. Xenophon (428–354 BC), a leading associate of Socrates, was an Athenian mercenary in the Persian army under Cyrus the Younger. Demosthenes (384–322 BC), the last spokesman of fr
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Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War
Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
His job, Cato believed, in a tradition begun by Diogenes, was to serve the public good. Not himself. Not expediency. Not his family. But the nation. That’s what real philosophy was about, whether his skeptical great-grandfather or fame-chasing friend Cicero understood it or not.
Stephen Hanselman • Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
