Xenophon Quotes

• Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

  Xenophon

  Tags in Government, Aristocracy, Appointed

• 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 best able to perform.

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  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Contempt, Preach, Will

• 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 being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Steadfast, Cause, Hardships, Will

• He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sauce, Eats, Pleasure

• 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.

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  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Compulsion, Whip, Understanding, Horses

• 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 drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Agreeable, Drink, Beer, Vessel, Water

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

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  Topics in Grief

  Tags in Injury, Excess, Madness, Living

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

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  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Splendor, Will, Horses

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

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  Tags in Applause

Xenophon (9)

Birth:	430 BC
Death:	354 BC
Nationality:	Greek
Profession:	Historian, Philosopher, Soldier

About

Xenophon, son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, also known as Xenophon of Athens, was a Greek historian, soldier, mercenary, philosopher and a contemporary and admirer of Socrates. He is known for his writings on the history of his own times, the 4th century BC, preserving the sayings of Socrates, and descriptions of life in ancient Greece and the Persian Empire.

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