Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

Isocrates

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Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp an... by Isocrates

Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.

iron cutting teaching

Never hope to conceal any shameful thing which you have done; for even if you do conceal it from others, your own heart will know. … Pursue the enjoyments which are of good repute; for pleasure attended by honor is the best thing in the world, but pleasure without honor is the worst.

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I maintain, then, that we should make peace, not only with the Chians, the Rhodians, the Byzantines and the Coans, but with all mankind.

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Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal. by Isocrates

Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.