I think you mean, Socrates, that if we are to win a good man’s friendship, we ourselves must be good in word and deed alike?
But you imagined that a bad man could win the friendship of honest men?
Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.
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