On the Peace Quotes

“Absolute power is universally coveted, though all know that an absolute ruler has an anxious life and usually a violent death.”
― Isocrates, On the Peace

“It is up-hill work to oppose our prejudices; we have a democracy, but freedom of speech is enjoyed only by the most foolish members of this Assembly and by the comic poets in the theatre. As, however, I am not here to court your votes, I shall say what I think...”
― Isocrates, On the Peace

“If you will go over these and similar questions in your minds, you will discover that arrogance and insolence have been the cause of our misfortunes while sobriety and self control have been the source of our blessings.”
― Isocrates, On the Peace

“Their successors, instead of ruling for the good of their subjects, tyrannize for their own; and they met with the fate of tyrants. No person not reckless of the past could wish to imitate them. The earlier and the later experiences of Athens prove, in fact, two things: that Attica produces good men, and that empire spoils them.”
― Isocrates, On the Peace