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Isocrates, Areopagiticus (ed. George Norlin), section 25 (search)
So severely did they abstain from what belonged to the state that it was harder in those days to find men who were willing to hold officeCf. Isoc. 12.146; Plat. Rep. 347b, Plat. Rep. 520d; Ruskin, Crown of Wild Olive: “No one ever teaches well who wants to teach or governs well who wants to govern: it is an old saying (Plato's but I know not if his first) and as wise as old.” than it is now to find men who are not begging for the privilege; for they did not regard a charge over public affairs as a chance for private gain but as a service to the state; neither did they from their first day in office seek to discover whether their predecessors had overlooked any source of profit, but much rather whether they had neglected any business of the state which pressed for sett