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> [An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/xenocrates/an-ambassador-should-study-the-welfare-of-his-country-and-not-spend/)

[Xenocrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/xenocrates/)

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## More by Xenocrates

> [Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/xenocrates/geometry-is-one-of-the-handles-of-science-and-philosophy/)

[Xenocrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/xenocrates/)

> [Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/xenocrates/go-away-you-give-philosophy-nothing-to-catch-hold-of/)

[Xenocrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/xenocrates/)

> [I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/xenocrates/i-have-often-repented-speaking-but-never-of-holding-my-tongue/)

[Xenocrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/xenocrates/)

> [One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/xenocrates/one-may-as-well-go-as-look-into-another-man-s-house-because-the-eye/)

[Xenocrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/xenocrates/)

> [Each man's soul is his genius.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/xenocrates/each-man-s-soul-is-his-genius/)

[Xenocrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/xenocrates/)

> [If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/xenocrates/if-the-ox-could-think-it-would-attribute-oxality-to-god/)

[Xenocrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/xenocrates/)

> [Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/xenocrates/antipater-uses-us-favourably-if-he-looks-upon-us-as-staves-but-very/)

[Xenocrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/xenocrates/)

> [An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/xenocrates/an-ambassador-should-study-the-welfare-of-his-country-and-not-spend/)

[Xenocrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/xenocrates/)

> [Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/xenocrates/counsel-in-trouble-gives-small-comfort-when-help-is-past-remedy/)

[Xenocrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/xenocrates/)

> [Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/xenocrates/tragedy-when-ridiculed-by-comedy-does-not-condescend-a-reply/)

[Xenocrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/xenocrates/)

> [Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/xenocrates/happiness-is-the-possession-of-the-excellence-proper-to-us-and-of-the/)

[Xenocrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/xenocrates/)

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