This text is part of:
Do not entertain ambitions such as bad men can achieve. The truest honours are private expressions of respect, not public laudations. Give public utterance to your high aspirations. Do not think that citizens must be orderly, but kings may live lawlessly; the state takes its character from the ruler. The prosperity of the subject is the test of good government.
Isocrates Cyprian Orations. Edward S. Forster.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.