Quotes from Against Timarchus — Aeschines
389 BC–314 BC Greece
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Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.
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For the life of a virtuous man ought to be so clean that it will not admit even of a suspicion of wrongdoing.
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For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
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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.
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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.
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