“Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.”

About Isocrates

Orator • Greek

Isocrates was an ancient Greek rhetorician and one of the ten Attic orators. He was a contemporary of Plato but chose to be a logographer and teacher rather than a public speaker due to a weak voice. His most...