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Xenocrates Quotes. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. Xenocrates. Inspirational, Witty, Powerful. 58 Copy quote. I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue. Xenocrates. Communication, Silence, Tongue. 4 Copy quote.
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1. “I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.” — Xenocrates. 2. “I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.” — Xenocrates. 3. “Each man’s soul is his genius.” — Xenocrates. 4. “Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.” — Xenocrates. 5.
XENOCRATES QUOTES. I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue. An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot. Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy. One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.
Jul 25, 2003 · Xenocrates. Xenocrates (of Chalcedon, a city on the Asian side of the Bosporus opposite Byzantium, according to Diogenes Laertius (D.L.) iv 14), became head of the Academy after Speusippus died, in 339/338 (“in the second year of the 110th Olympiad”). D.L. says he held that position for twenty-five years, and died at 82.
Xenocrates was an ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician and disciple of Plato who later became the leader of the Platonic Academy. He attempted to define Plato’s teachings more closely. Xenocrates held that mathematical objects and Platonic Ideas are identical, unlike Plato who distinguished them. In ethics, he taught that happiness comes ...
Jul 25, 2003 · Xenocrates. First published Fri Jul 25, 2003; substantive revision Fri Aug 22, 2008. Xenocrates (of Chalcedon), according to Diogenes Laertius (D.L.) iv 14, became head of the Academy after Speusippus died, in 339/338 (“in the second year of the 110th Olympiad”). D.L. says he held that position for twenty-five years, and died at 82.
