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Isocrates quotes: Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

Isocrates quotes: Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.

Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.

Isocrates quotes: Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.

Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.

Isocrates quotes: Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

Isocrates quotes: I maintain, then, that we should make peace, not only with the Chians, the Rhodians, the Byzantines and the Coans, but with all mankind ...

I maintain, then, that we should make peace, not only with the Chians, the Rhodians, the Byzantines and the Coans, but with all mankind ...

Isocrates quotes: If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.

If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.

Isocrates quotes: Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation.

Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation.

Isocrates quotes: Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends.

Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends.

Isocrates quotes: Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes.

Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes.