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He held it a greater calamity to neglect that which is good knowingly than in ignorance.No fame attracted him unless he did the right work to achieve it.He seemed to me one of the few men who count virtue not a task to be endured but a comfort to be enjoyed. At any rate praise gave him more pleasure than money.Courage, as he displayed it, was joined with prudence rather than boldness, and wisdom he cultivated more by action than in words.
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 7. E. C. Marchant, G. W. Bowersock, tr. Constitution of the Athenians. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1925.
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