Xenocrates Quotes & Sayings

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

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy. — Xenocrates

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

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

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

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

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

Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply. — Xenocrates

Each man's soul is his genius. — Xenocrates

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