Xenocrates famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Xenocrates

#Witty #Humorous #Silence
Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.
-- Xenocrates

#Philosophy #Giving #Going Away
Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.
-- Xenocrates

#Looks #Use #Look Up
Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.
-- Xenocrates

#Philosophy #Geometry #Handle
An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.
-- Xenocrates

#Country #Ambassadors #Study
One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.
-- Xenocrates

#Eye #Men #Hands
Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
-- Xenocrates

#Tragedy #Doe #Comedy
Each man's soul is his genius.
-- Xenocrates

#Men #Soul #Genius
If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.
-- Xenocrates

#God #Thinking #Attributes
Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.
-- Xenocrates

#Past #Giving #Advice
Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.
-- Xenocrates

#Excellence #Possession

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