Hellas Quotes by Isocrates

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Isocrates has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…

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