Welfare Country Quotes by Xenocrates

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

— Xenocrates

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

— Xenocrates

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

— Xenocrates

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

— Xenocrates

Each man's soul is his genius.

— Xenocrates

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

— Xenocrates

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

— Xenocrates

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

— Xenocrates

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

— Xenocrates

Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.

— Xenocrates

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

— Xenocrates