Bad Repute Quotes by Isocrates

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• Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.
• Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with…
• So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of…
• Never hope to conceal any shameful thing which you have done; for even if you do conceal it from others, your own…
• Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a…
• Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while…
• And let no one suppose that I claim that just living can be taught for, in a word, I hold that there…
• But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying…
• It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember…
• Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity.…
• Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends; for you must expect him to treat you…
• Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

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