Xenocrates Quotes

• I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

  Xenocrates

  Inspirational, Witty, Powerful

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

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  Communication, Silence, Tongue

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• Each man's soul is his genius.

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  Men, Soul, Genius

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

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  Excellence, Possession, Subservient

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

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  Country, Ambassadors, Study

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• Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Geometry, Handle

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

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  Past, Giving, Advice

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

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  Eye, Men, Hands

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• Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.

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  Tragedy, Doe, Comedy

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

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  Looks, Use, Look Up

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

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  Philosophy, Giving, Going Away

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

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  God, Thinking, Attributes

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