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Xenophon Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the greek soldier Xenophon on topics like beauty, horse, risk

  • The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

    — Xenophon on praise
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  • Excess of grief for the dead is madness;

    for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

    — Xenophon on sympathy
    1
  • He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

    — Xenophon on eats
    1
  • For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.

    — Xenophon on agreeable
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  • There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

    — Xenophon on contempt
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  • A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

    — Xenophon on beauty
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  • Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

    — Xenophon on appointed
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  • The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

    — Xenophon on adhere
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  • If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

    — Xenophon on education
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  • For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

    — Xenophon on beauty
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  • About Xenophon

    Name Xenophon
    Quotes 10 quotations
    Nationality Greek
    Profession Soldier
    Birthday October 16
    About Xenophon (Ancient Greek Ξενοφῶν, Modern Greek "Ξενοφών", "Ξενοφώντας"; ca. 431 – 355 BC), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, was a soldier, mercenary and a contemporary and admirer of Socrates. He is known for his writings on the history of his own times, preserving the sayings of Socrates, and the life of ancient Greece.
    Top topics beauty, horse, risk, regarded, small

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