Indeed, you have caused the orators to practice and study, not what will be advantageous to the state, but how they may discourse in a manner pleasing to you. And it is to this kind of discourse that the majority of them have resorted also at the present time, since it has become plain to all that you will be better pleased with those who summon you to war than with those who counsel peace, for the former put into our minds the expectation both of regaining our possessions in the several states and of recovering the power which we formerly enjoyed, while the latter hold forth no such hope. Isocrates. On The Peace. Speech 8. Section 5-6.
Image: Hannibal Barca sculpted in miniature at 1:9 by Jun-Sik Ahn and painted by Jason Zhou. Courtesy of Putty and Paint.
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