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And yet we all know that success does not visit and abide with those who have built around themselves the finest and the strongest walls,1 nor with those who have collected the greatest population in one place, but rather with those who most nobly and wisely govern their state.
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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