It is difficult to find terms of praise to match deeds of surpassing magnitude

It is easy to magnify little things by means of discourse, it is difficult to find terms of praise to match deeds of surpassing magnitude and excellence. Isocrates. Panathenaicus. Speech 12. Section 36.


Image: Calling on the Gods by Louis Héctor Leroux (1829-1900) (PD)

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