Isocrates, On the Peace, section 136

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If, then, you will abide by the advice which I have given you, and if, besides, you will prove yourselves warlike by training and preparing for war but peaceful by doing nothing contrary to justice,¹ you will render not only this city but all the Hellenes happy and prosperous.

1 Repeated from Isoc. 2.24.

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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