Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 120c

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[120c] what requires practice, and so ensure that you are perfectly prepared before entering upon a political career.

Alcibiades
Why, Socrates, I believe you are right; though I think neither the Spartan generals nor the Persian king are at all different from other people.

Socrates
But, my excellent friend, consider what this notion of yours means.

Alcibiades
In regard to what?

Socrates
First of all, do you think you would take more pains over yourself

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.

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