Xenophon Quotes

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• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
• The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without…
• There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself…
• Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
• For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They…
• Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
• He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
• 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…
• A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
• Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living
• As to what happened next, it is possible to maintain that the hand of heaven was involved, and also possible to say that when men…
• The sweetest sound of all is praise.

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