XENOCRATES QUOTES

Greek philosopher (396 BC - 314 BC)

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

XENOCRATES

attributed, The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Tags: silence


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

XENOCRATES

attributed, Day's Collacon


Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

XENOCRATES

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

XENOCRATES

attributed, Plutarch's Morals


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

XENOCRATES

attributed, Plutarch's Lives


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

XENOCRATES

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: advice


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

XENOCRATES

attributed, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Tags: happiness


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

XENOCRATES

spoken to an unnamed student who wished to attend his lecture, A History of Cynicism from Diogenes to the 6th Century

Tags: philosophy


Each man's soul is his genius.

XENOCRATES

attributed, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor

Tags: soul


Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.

XENOCRATES

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

XENOCRATES

attributed, Personality: The Beginning and End of Metaphysics

Tags: God