Isocrates, To Timotheus, ed. Larue Van Hook, 4

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[4] Some, disdaining these obligations, look to nothing else save how they may themselves lead lives of the greatest licentiousness and may mistreat and pillage by taxation the best and wealthiest and most sagacious of their subjects, being ill aware that wise men who hold that high office should not, at the cost of injury to all the rest, provide pleasures for themselves, but rather should by their own watchful care make their subjects happier¹;

To Timotheus. Isocrates. ed. Larue Van Hook. Cambridge, MA. 1945.

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Letter 7: To Timotheus (English) (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).)

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Ἐπιστολαὶ ζʹ Τιμοθέῳ Perseus (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).) — 4 focus

[4] ὧν ἔνιοι καταφρονήσαντες οὐδὲν ἄλλο σκοποῦσι, πλὴν ὅπως αὐτοί θ’ ὡς μετὰ πλείστης ἀσελγείας τὸν βίον διάξουσι, τῶν τε πολιτῶν τοὺς βελτίστους καὶ πλουσιωτάτους καὶ φρονιμωτάτους λυμανοῦνται καὶ δασμολογήσουσι, κακῶς εἰδότες ὅτι προσήκει τοὺς εὖ φρονοῦντας καὶ τὴν τιμὴν ταύτην ἔχοντας μὴ τοῖς τῶν ἄλλων κακοῖς αὑτοῖς ἡδονὰς παρασκευάζειν, ἀλλὰ ταῖς αὑτῶν ἐπιμελείαις τοὺς πολίτας εὐδαιμονεστέρους ποιεῖν,

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To Timotheus

1. Cf. Isoc. 8.91 for the same sentiment.

Isocrates To Timotheus 4

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