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Aeschines said to him, "I am a poor man and have nothing else to give, but I offer you myself," and Socrates answered, "Nay, do you not see that you are offering me the greatest gift of all?"

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Aeschines (389–314 BC) was a Greek statesman and one of the ten Attic orators.

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Native Name: Αἰσχίνης

Alternative Names: Æschines

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The man who is unprincipled in private life will never make a good public servant, nor will one who is of no account at home prove a man of light and leading with the embassy in Macedonia; for he has only changed his abode, not his nature.

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