Isocrates, To Nicocles, section 33

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Keep watch always on your words and actions, that you may fall into as few mistakes as possible. For while it is best to grasp your opportunities at exactly the right moment, yet, since they are difficult to discern, choose to fall short rather than to overreach them;¹ for the happy mean is to be found in defect rather than in excess.

1 Cf. Artistot. Nic. Eth. 2.5; Cicero, Orat. xxii. : “etsi suus cuique rei modus est, tamen magis offendit nimium quam parum.”

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 (3):
- Edward S. Forster, Isocrates Cyprian Orations, 48
- Edward S. Forster, Isocrates Cyprian Orations, 64
- Edward S. Forster, Isocrates Cyprian Orations, 1
Cross-references in notes from this page (1):
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1105b
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (5):
- LSJ, δυσκατα-μάθητος
- LSJ, ἔνδεια
- LSJ, ἐλλείπ-ω
- LSJ, μετριό-της
- LSJ, πλεον-άζω

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