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He is specially deserving of our hatred, in that being wicked he has all the outward signs of virtue.
Against Ctesiphon (-330)
Right is not unlimited, but is limited by the laws.
Against Ctesiphon (-330)
Integrity is to be preferred to eloquence.
Against Ctesiphon (-330)
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)