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But, father, what would be the best way to gain an advantage over the enemy?
By Zeus, said he, this is no easy or simple question that you ask now, my son; but, let me tell you, the man who proposes to do that must be designing and cunning, wily and deceitful, a thief and a robber, overreaching the enemy at every point.
O Heracles, father, said Cyrus with a laugh, what a man you say I must become!
Such, my son, he said, that you would be at the same time the most righteous and law-abiding man in the world.
But, father, what would be the best way to gain an advantage over the enemy?
By Zeus, said he, this is no easy or simple question that you ask now, my son; but, let me tell you, the man who proposes to do that must be designing and cunning, wily and deceitful, a thief and a robber, overreaching the enemy at every point.
O Heracles, father, said Cyrus with a laugh, what a man you say I must become!
Such, my son, he said, that you would be at the same time the most righteous and law-abiding man in the world.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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