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“And to which shall we give the power of limiting his sleep so that he can go late to bed and get up early, and do without sleep if need be?”“To the same again.”“And the power to control his passions, so that he may not be hindered in doing necessary work?”“To the same again.”“And to which shall we give the habit of not shirking a task, but undertaking it willingly?”“That too will go to the one who is being trained to rule.”“And to which would the knowledge needful for overcoming enemies be more appropriately given?”“Without doubt to the one who is being trained to rule; for the other lessons would be useless without such knowledge.”
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 4. E. C. Marchant. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1923.
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