Xenocrates quotes:

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

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

  • Each man's soul is his genius.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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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