Xenophon -- (Attributed)

Dave — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:39:47 +0000

Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Xenophon (c. 431-355 BC) Greek historian and essayist
(Attributed)
(Source)

In Anon. Mental Recreation Or, Select Maxims, Sayings And Observations Of Philosophers (1831).

Xenophon -- The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates, ch. 2 “Socrates No Debaucher of Youth”

Dave — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:11:03 +0000

For many who live frugally before they fall in love become prodigal when that passion gets the mastery over them; insomuch that after having wasted their estates, they are reduced to gain their bread by methods they would have been ashamed of before. What hinders then, but that a man, who has been once temperate, should be so no longer, and that he who has led a good life at one time should not do so at another? I should think, therefore, that the being of all virtues, and chiefly of temperance, depends on the practice of them: for lust, that dwells in the same body with the soul, incites it continually to despise this virtue, and to find out the shortest way to gratify the senses only.

Xenophon (c. 431-355 BC) Greek historian and essayist
The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates, ch. 2 “Socrates No Debaucher of Youth”

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Xenophon -- The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates, ch. 2 “Socrates No Debaucher of Youth”