Quotes by Xenophon

3 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

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.— filed under Drinking

Foot's Resolution, Jan. 26, 1830. Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, he (Socrates) considered the government to be an aristocracy.— filed under Government

The most pleasing of all sounds that of your own praise.— filed under Praise

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