Choose rather honesty poverty, than dishonest riches, as the latter only profits the possessor in life, but the first crowns the very dead with fame and glory.
Variant: Approve of just poverty more than of unjust wealth; for justice is so much better than riches, in that riches benefit only the living, but justice wins glory even for the dead.
(Letter to Demonicus)

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Never emulate those who gain by injustice.

Isocrates (Letter to Demonicus)

If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.

Isocrates (Ad Doemonicum)

When you design to ask any one's advice, consider how he has acted in his own behalf. 

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