Quotes about Xenophon

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They (Thucydides and Xenophon) maintained the dignity of history.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.

If the hero is not a person, the emblem
Of him, even if Xenophon, seems
To stand taller than a person stands, has
A wider brow, large and less human
Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body
Of a primitive.

Wallace Stevens