Xenocrates Quotes
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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
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Each man's soul is his genius.
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Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.
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One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.
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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
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Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.
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An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.
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If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.
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Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.
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Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.
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Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
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Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.
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