Isocrates, To the Children of Jason, ed. Larue Van Hook, 10

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[10] If in this way you seriously search and study, you will take mental aim, as at a mark, at what is expedient for you, and will be the more likely to hit it. And if you have no such plan, but attempt to act in casual fashion, inevitably you will go astray in your purposes and fail in many undertakings.

To the Children of Jason. Isocrates. ed. Larue Van Hook. Cambridge, MA. 1945.

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Letter 6: To the Children of Jason (English) (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).)

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Ἐπιστολαὶ ςʹ Τοῖς Ἰάσονος παισίν Perseus (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).) — 10 focus

[10] καὶ τοῦτον μὲν τὸν τρόπον ζητοῦντες καὶ φιλοσοφοῦντες ὥσπερ σκοποῦ κειμένου στοχάσεσθε τῇ ψυχῇ καὶ μᾶλλον ἐπιτεύξεσθε τοῦ συμφέροντος· ἂν δὲ μηδεμίαν ποιήσησθε τοιαύτην ὑπόθεσιν, ἀλλὰ τὸ προσπῖπτον ἐπιχειρῆτε πράττειν, ἀναγκαῖόν ἐστιν ὑμᾶς ταῖς διανοίαις πλανᾶσθαι καὶ πολλῶν διαμαρτάνειν πραγμάτων.

Isocrates To the Children of Jason 10

ed. Larue Van Hook

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