Right is not unlimited, but is limited by the laws. - Aeschines

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Right is not unlimited, but is limited by the laws.

Aeschines

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About Aeschines

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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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?"

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.

For at a congress of the Lacedaemonian allies and the other Greeks, in which Amyntas, the father of Philip, being entitled to a seat, was represented by a delegate whose vote was absolutely under his control, he joined the other Greeks in voting to help Athens to recover possession of Amphipolis. As proof of this I presented from the public records the resolution of the Greek congress and the names of those who voted.