[145] My subject is not exhausted; there are many excellent things to be said upon it, but I am prompted by two considerations to stop speaking: the length of my discourse and the number of my years. But I urge and exhort those who are younger and more vigorous than I to speak and write the kind of discourses by which they will turn the greatest states—those which have been wont to oppress the rest—into the paths of virtue and justice, since when the affairs of
Hellas
are in a happy and prosperous condition, it follows that the state of learning and letters also is greatly improved.
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On the Peace. Isocrates. George Norlin (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1928.
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