Coming to the aid of your friends

You will best serve your friends if you do not wait for them to ask your help, but go of your own accord at the crucial moment to lend them aid. Isocrates. To Demonicus. Chapter 1. Section 25.


Statue of young girl with dove Roman copy of Hellenistic original of the 3rd-2nd century BCE photographed at the Capitoline Museum in Rome, Italy.

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