Try QuoteGPT
Chat naturally about what you need. Each answer links back to real quotes with citations.
It is common opinion among us in regard to beauty and wisdom that there is an honourable and a shameful way of bestowing them. For to offer one’s bea… - Xenophon
" "It is common opinion among us in regard to beauty and wisdom that there is an honourable and a shameful way of bestowing them. For to offer one’s beauty for money to all comers is called prostitution; but we think it virtuous to become friendly with a lover who is known to be a man of honour. So is it with wisdom. Those who offer it to all comers for money are known as sophists, prostitutors of wisdom.
English
Collect this quote
About Xenophon
Xenophon (Greek Ξενοφῶν, c. 431 BC – c. 354 BC) was an Athenian author, historian and mercenary, who led the epic retreat of the Ten Thousand from Mesopotamia to the Black Sea coast. He knew Socrates, Cyrus the Younger and Agesilaus II of Sparta, and wrote about all of them.
Also Known As
Native Name:
Ξενοφών
Also Known As:
Attic Muse
Alternative Names:
Xenophon of Athens
Related quotes. More quotes will automatically load as you scroll down, or you can use the load more buttons.
Additional quotes by Xenophon
Try QuoteGPT
Chat naturally about what you need. Each answer links back to real quotes with citations.
In this mood he [Proxenus] threw himself into the projects of Cyrus, and in return expected to derive from this essay the reward of a great name, large power, and wide wealth. But for all that he pitched his hopes so high, it was none the less evident that he would refuse to gain any of the ends he set before him wrongfully. Righteously and honourably he would obtain them, if he might, or else forego them.
Loading...