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Right is not unlimited, but is limited by the laws.
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He is specially deserving of our hatred, in that being wicked he has all the outward signs of virtue.
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The man who is unprincipled in private life will never make a good public servant, nor will one who is of no account at home prove a man of light and leading with the embassy in Macedonia; for he has only changed his abode, not his nature.
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Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.
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Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.
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An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.
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For at a congress of the Lacedaemonian allies and the other Greeks, in which Amyntas, the father of Philip, being entitled to a seat, was represented by a delegate whose vote was absolutely under his control, he joined the other Greeks in voting to help Athens to recover possession of Amphipolis. As proof of this I presented from the public records the resolution of the Greek congress and the names of those who voted.
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For you are well aware that it is not only by bodily exercises, by educational institutions, or by lessons in music, that our youth are trained, but much more effectually by public examples.
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Born:
389 BC
Died:
314 BC
(aged 75)
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Aeschines was a Greek statesman and one of the ten Attic orators.
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