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Παναθηναικός

Παναθηναικός Isocrates
139 Having learned this truth, the people did not forget it on account of the change in the constitution, but rather gave their minds to this one endeavor before all others: to obtain as their leaders men who were in sympathy with democracy, but were possessed of the same character as those who were formerly at the head of the state; and not unwittingly to place in charge of the whole commonwealth men to whom no one would entrust a single detail of his private interests;Cf. Isoc. 8.13, 133.
140 and not to permit men to approach positions of public trust who are notoriously depraved; and not even to suffer men to be heardCf. Isoc. 8.3 and note. who lend their own persons to base practices but deem themselves worthy to advise others how they should govern the state in order to advance in sobriety and well-being, or who have squandered what they inherited from their fathers on shameful pleasures but seek to repair their own fortunes from the public treasurySee Isoc. 8.124 and note., or who strive always to speak for the gratification of their audience but plunge those who are persuaded by them into many distresses and hardships;

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