Aim at immortality by your heroic actions; but let your conduct be so prudent, that you never become forgetful of mortality.
Variant: Show consciousness of immortality in the loftiness of your soul, but remember mortality in moderate enjoyment of this world's goods.
(Letter to Demonicus)
Isocrates
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Never emulate those who gain by injustice. If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed. When you design to ask any one's advice, consider how he has acted in his own behalf.
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