all who care about the welfare of the stat

It is the duty of all who care about the welfare of the state to choose, not those discourses which are agreeable to you, but those which are profitable for you to hear. Isocrates. On The Peace. Speech 8. Section 39.


Image:Fourth Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon, 1876, by Vasily Surikov, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

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