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Visit the same punishment on false-accusers as on evil-doers.Govern yourself no less than your subjects, and consider that you are in the highest sense a king when you are a slave to no pleasure1 but rule over your desires more firmly than over your people. Do not contract any intimacy heedlessly or without reflection, but accustom yourself to take pleasure in that society which will contribute to your advancement and heighten your fame in the eyes of the world.
1 Cf. Isoc. 1.21.