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Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.
Against Timarchus (-5)
He is specially deserving of our hatred, in that being wicked he has all the outward signs of virtue.
Against Ctesiphon (-330)
Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.
On the Embassy (-343)
Right is not unlimited, but is limited by the laws.
Against Ctesiphon (-330)
Integrity is to be preferred to eloquence.
Against Ctesiphon (-330)
For the life of a virtuous man ought to be so clean that it will not admit even of a suspicion of wrongdoing.
Against Timarchus (-5)
For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
Against Timarchus (-5)
For men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.
Against Ctesiphon (-330)
For a defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are unworthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.
Against Ctesiphon (-330)
For you are well aware that it is not only by bodily exercises, by educational institutions, or by lessons in music, that our youth are trained, but much more effectually by public examples.
Against Ctesiphon (-330)
But as it was, they saved the city out of great disasters, and gave utterance to those words which are the fairest product of enlightened minds, 'Forgive and forget.'
Against Ctesiphon (-330)
The man who is unprincipled in private life will never make a good public servant, nor will one who is of no account at home prove a man of light and leading with the embassy in Macedonia; for he has only changed his abode, not his nature.
Against Ctesiphon (-330)
πονηρὰ φύσις, μεγάλης ἐξουσίας ἐπιλαβομένη, δημοσίας ἀπεργάζεται συμφοράς.
Against Ctesiphon (-330)
Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
Against Timarchus (-5)
It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws.
Against Timarchus (-5)