Greek philosopher (396 BC - 314 BC)
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
XENOCRATES
attributed, The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.
XENOCRATES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.
XENOCRATES
attributed, Day's Collacon
One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.
XENOCRATES
attributed, Plutarch's Morals
Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.
XENOCRATES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.
XENOCRATES
attributed, Plutarch's Lives
Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.
XENOCRATES
attributed, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Each man's soul is his genius.
XENOCRATES
attributed, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor
Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
XENOCRATES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.
XENOCRATES
spoken to an unnamed student who wished to attend his lecture, A History of Cynicism from Diogenes to the 6th Century
If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.
XENOCRATES
attributed, Personality: The Beginning and End of Metaphysics