A man so great they named a triangle after him!
Save this one!
Self ping.
“Double parked” - well put!
This Isocratic quote is a keeper, thanks for posting.
almost 2500 years ago, and so little has changed, if anything at all.
I found reading plutarch’s lives of sulla and marius quite depressing due to the close similarities of some of the issues in rome and today.
Reminds me that as a young adult I prayed and asked God what made USA so good and felt like I got a 1 word response: Freedom.
About 15-20 years later [during Clinton scandals] I prayed and asked God what was causing the USA to fall so far from its greatness and felt like I got a 1 word response: Freedom.
“For those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which in name merely was hailed as the most impartial and the mildest of governments, while in practice showing itself the opposite to those who lived under it, nor one which trained the citizens in such fashion that they looked upon insolence as democracy, lawlessness as liberty, impudence of speech as equality, and licence to do what they pleased as happiness, but rather a polity which detested and punished such men and by so doing made all the citizens better and wiser.”
http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/greekfeatures/a/democracyisocr.htm
The more that changes...
Did Isocrates die from drinking Ihemlock?