Xenocrates Quotes & Sayings

Top 10 Xenocrates Quotes

#1. An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.

#2. Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.

#3. Each man's soul is his genius.

#4. If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.

#5. Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.

#6. Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

#7. Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.

#8. One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

#9. Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.

#10. Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.