Xenophon quotes:

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.

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

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.

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

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

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

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.

...men unite against none so readily as against those whom theysee attempting to rule over them.