Politicians

It is practiced by the politicians, who would appear to rely more upon a sort of empirical skill than on the exercise of abstract intelligence;

Yet we should expect them to have done so had they been able, for they could have bequeathed no more valuable legacy to their countries, nor is there any quality they would choose for themselves, and therefore for those nearest to them, to possess, in preference to political capacity.

And it happened by a piece of good luck that you were persuaded by the politicians to despatch troops into Acarnania, and the defendant Olympiodorus was among those called to service, and he departed with the others on the expedition.

Another remark worth making, gentlemen of the jury, is that you are far more magnanimous than the politicians.

But in this city, gentlemen of the jury, our politicians rarely let a month go by without legislating to suit their private ends.

In the same spirit politicians are not satisfied with having risen from poverty to affluence at the expense of the City, but calumniate the common people,—because the common people know what their style of life was when they were young and poor.

I went to one of those who had a reputation for wisdom, thinking that there, if anywhere, I should prove the utterance wrong and should show the oracle This man is wiser than I, but you said I was wisest.

those who had the most reputation seemed to me to be almost the most deficient, as I investigated at the god’s behest, and others who were of less repute seemed to be superior men in the matter of being sensible.

And the best men and dearest to the gods, he added, are those who do their work well;