Category - Xenophon

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Wisdom Xenophon

For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably.

– Xenophon

Wisdom Xenophon

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

– Xenophon

Sympathy Xenophon

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

– Xenophon

Strength Xenophon

You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.

– Xenophon

Education Teacher Xenophon

I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.

– Xenophon

Beauty Xenophon

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

Beauty Xenophon

A horse is a thing of beauty… none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

– Xenophon

Age Death War Xenophon

Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

– Xenophon

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