All Men Crave Advantage

While all men crave their advantage and desire to be better off than the rest, they do not all know the kind of conduct which leads to this end. Isocrates. On the Peace. Speech 8. Section 28.


Image: Roman soldiers loading plunder onto their pack animals after defeating Decebalus, the Dacian King depicted on Trajan's Column in Rome, Italy. (PD)

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