Aeschines Quotes

• Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.

  Aeschines

  Strong, Sophistry, Overcoming

  "Against Timarchus". Speech by Aeschines, 84 (107), c. 346 BC.

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• A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.

  Aeschines

  War, Evil, Enemy

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• An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.

  Aeschines

  Evil, Community, Authority

  "Dictionary of Quotations (classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle. Ctesiphontem, 147, 1897.

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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.

  Aeschines

  Law, Tyrants, Democracy

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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.

  Aeschines

  Government, Law, Democracy

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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.

  Aeschines

  Strong, Men, Law

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• Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

  Aeschines

  Real, Men, Vaunt

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• Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.

  Aeschines

  Noble, Amnesty, Genuine

  Demosthenes, Aeschines, Dinarchus (1836). “The Orations of Demosthenes”, p.159

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• Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.

  Aeschines

  Lying, Ears, Rumours

  "De Falsa Legatione" by Aeschines, 149,

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• Right is not unlimited, but is limited by the laws.

  Aeschines

  Law, Unlimited

  "Dictionary of Quotations (classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle. Ctesiphontem, 199, 1897.

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