Curated Quotations

Xenophon

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

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

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  • “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

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

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