Quotes from Dionysius of Halicarnassus

History is philosophy learned from examples.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.

??????? ????????? '????? '?? ?????????????." [History is philosophy, out ?f examples.]

Let thy speech be better than silence or be silent

It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.

Of God Himself can no man think. And therefore I would leave all that thing that I can think, and choose to my love that thing that I cannot think.