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Then we had better consider how we may avoid mistaking them.
I want to do so, said the youth.
Well now, said Socrates, if we had to lay hands on a sum of money, would not the right arrangement be to put the most covetous men in the front?
I think so.
And what should we do with those who are going to face danger? Should our first line consist of the most ambitious?
Oh yes: they are the men who will face danger for the sake of glory. About these, now, there is no mystery: they are conspicuous everywhere, and so it is easy to find them.
Then we had better consider how we may avoid mistaking them.
I want to do so, said the youth.
Well now, said Socrates, if we had to lay hands on a sum of money, would not the right arrangement be to put the most covetous men in the front?
I think so.
And what should we do with those who are going to face danger? Should our first line consist of the most ambitious?
Oh yes: they are the men who will face danger for the sake of glory. About these, now, there is no mystery: they are conspicuous everywhere, and so it is easy to find them.
Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.
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