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[45] For if we are willing to survey human nature as a whole, we shall find that the majority of men do not take pleasure in the food¹ that is the most wholesome, nor in the pursuits that are the most honorable, nor in the actions that are the noblest, nor in the creatures that are the most useful, but that they have tastes which are in every way contrary to their best interests, while they view those who have some regard for their duty as men of austere and laborious lives.

1 Cf. Isoc. 1.45.

Isocrates. Isocrates with an English Translation in three volumes, by George Norlin, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1980.

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Commentary references to this page (1):
- Edward S. Forster, Isocrates Cyprian Orations, 66
Cross-references to this page (1):
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.2.4
Cross-references in notes to this page (1):
- Isocrates, On the Peace, Isoc. 8 109
Cross-references in notes from this page (1):
- Isocrates, To Demonicus, 45
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (1):
- LSJ, λέγω

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