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Xenophon (Historian)

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.
— Xenophon education
The sweetest sound of all is praise.
— Xenophon sweet
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
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
As to what happened next, it is possible to maintain that the hand of heaven was involved, and also possible to say that when men are desperate no one can stand up to them.
— Xenophon men
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
— Xenophon pleasure
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
— Xenophon sweet
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.
— Xenophon men
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 self
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not
— Xenophon living
Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living
— Xenophon art
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.
— Xenophon water
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
— Xenophon men
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
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
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.
— Xenophon water
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.
— Xenophon men
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
— Xenophon living
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
— Xenophon men
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
— Xenophon pleasure
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 self

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