Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor for the lowest ends, your life will be lacking in friends who will risk your… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes. — Isocrates Copy Share Image
“It was the principle of this Court that deterrent laws, however strict, are useless without positive moral discipline; that the happiness of citizens depends,… — Isocrates Copy Share
We should not call a city happy because it attracts masses of citizens from everywhere; a fortunate city is one in which the race… — Isocrates Copy Share
If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can… — Isocrates Copy Share
Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while in the… — Isocrates Copy Share
Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over… — Isocrates Copy Share
“Their successors, instead of ruling for the good of their subjects, tyrannize for their own; and they met with the fate of tyrants. No… — Isocrates Copy Share
Let there be but two occasions for speech - when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is one on… — Isocrates Copy Share
Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting. — Isocrates Copy Share
And let no one suppose that I claim that just living can be taught for, in a word, I hold that there does not… — Isocrates Copy Share
“Whom, then, do I call educated, since I exclude the arts and sciences and specialties? First, those who manage well the circumstances which they… — Isocrates Copy Share
It is not fitting that the evil produced by men should be imputed to things; let those bear the blame who make an ill… — Isocrates Copy Share
So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of the world,… — Isocrates Copy Share
“It is up-hill work to oppose our prejudices; we have a democracy, but freedom of speech is enjoyed only by the most foolish members… — Isocrates Copy Share
“Absolute power is universally coveted, though all know that an absolute ruler has an anxious life and usually a violent death.” — Isocrates Copy Share
