Men who have been gifted with eloquence by nature and by fortune, are governed in what they say by chance, and not by any standard of what is best, whereas those who have gained this power by the study of philosophy and by the exercise of reason never speak without weighing their words, and so are less often in error as to a course of action. Isocrates. Antidosis. Speech 15. Section 292.
Image: Plague in an ancient city (thought to be Athens) by Michiel Sweerts circa 1652-1654 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Image: Plague in an ancient city (thought to be Athens) by Michiel Sweerts circa 1652-1654 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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