Isocrates, To Nicocles, section 14

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[14] But¹ the strongest challenge to your task you will find in yourself, if only you consider it monstrous that the worse should rule the better,² and that the more foolish should give orders to men of greater wisdom; for the more vigorously you condemn folly in others, the more diligently will you train your own understanding.

1 The passage here to 39 is quoted in a somewhat abbreviated form in Isoc. 15.73.

2 Cf. Isoc. 3.14 ff.

Isocrates. Isocrates with an English Translation in three volumes, by George Norlin, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1980.

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Commentary references to this page (2):
- Edward S. Forster, Isocrates Cyprian Orations, 43
- Edward S. Forster, Isocrates Cyprian Orations, 5
Cross-references in notes to this page (2):
- Isocrates, Nicocles or the Cyprians, Isoc. 3 14
- Isocrates, Areopagiticus, Isoc. 7 21
Cross-references in notes from this page (2):
- Isocrates, Nicocles or the Cyprians, 14
- Isocrates, Antidosis, 73
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (2):
- LSJ, φρόνιμ-ος
- LSJ, παρακα^λέω

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