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Isocrates Quotes

436 BC–338 BC Greece

Isocrates (Ἰσοκράτης, Isokrátēs; 436 – 338 BC), an ancient Greek rhetorician, was one of the ten Attic orators. Among the most influential Greek rhetoricians of his time, Isocrates made many contributions to rhetoric and education through his teaching and written works.

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For if you do these things, all men will be grateful to you: the Hellenes for your kindness to them; the Macedonians if you reign over them, not like a tyrant, but like a king; and the rest of the nations, if by your hands they are delivered from barbaric despotism and are brought under the protection of Hellas.

V. To Philip (-346)

Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.

Misattributed

Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting. (tr. C. T. Ramage, 1869)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Isocrates (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.