Aeschines Quotes

• Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.

  Esquines

  Strong, Sophistry, Overcoming

  "Against Timarchus". Speech by Aeschines, 84 (107), c. 346 BC.

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• A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.

  Esquines

  War, Evil, Enemy

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• An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.

  Esquines

  Evil, Community, Authority

  "Dictionary of Quotations (classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle. Ctesiphontem, 147, 1897.

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• Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

  Esquines

  Law, Tyrants, Democracy

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• It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws.

  Esquines

  Government, Law, Democracy

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• For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

  Esquines

  Strong, Men, Law

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• Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

  Esquines

  Real, Men, Vaunt

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• Amnistía, esa noble palabra, el auténtico dictado de la sabiduría.

  Esquines

  Noble, Amnesty, Genuine

  Demosthenes, Aeschines, Dinarchus (1836). “The Orations of Demosthenes”, p.159

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• Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.

  Esquines

  Lying, Ears, Rumours

  "De Falsa Legatione" by Aeschines, 149,

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• Right is not unlimited, but is limited by the laws.

  Esquines

  Law, Unlimited

  "Dictionary of Quotations (classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle. Ctesiphontem, 199, 1897.

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