[19] Furthermore, the former are dilatory in action,
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for they spend most of their time over their private concerns; and when they do assemble in council, you will find them more often quarrelling
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with each other than deliberating together; while the latter, for whom no councils or times of meeting are prescribed, but who apply themselves to the state’s business both day and night, do not let opportunities pass them by, but act in each case at the right moment.
Nicocles or the Cyprians. Isocrates. George Norlin (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1928.
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