Men who are less generously endowed by nature but excel in experience and practice, not only improve upon themselves, but surpass others

Men who are less generously endowed by nature but excel in experience and practice, not only improve upon themselves, but surpass others who, though highly gifted, have been too negligent of their talents. Isocrates. Antidosis. Speech 15. Section 191.

Image: Male portrait from the 1st century CE possibly a young Vespasian courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art on Wikimedia Commons.