Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.
One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot. - Xenocrates
One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.
- Xenocrates
If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God. - Xenocrates
If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.
Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it. - Xenocrates
Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.
Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen. - Xenocrates
Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.
Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy. - Xenocrates
Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of. - Xenocrates
Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.
An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot. - Xenocrates
An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.
Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply. - Xenocrates
Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
Each man's soul is his genius. - Xenocrates
Each man's soul is his genius.
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