Find the best quotes, maxims and aphorisms of Xenophon

Biography : Greek philosopher, historian and soldier *Approximate years of birth and death.
Born: -430 - Died: -355
Period:
4th century BC
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Greece

Xenophon - Quotes

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.
Xenophon

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

madness

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.
Xenophon

beauty

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

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

beauty

Find Xenophon quotes in french or in german.

Click on the translation icon.