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Do you mean to say, then, Cyrus answered, that in one day’s time your father has become discreet when he was indiscreet before?
Yes said he, I do, indeed.
By that you mean to say that discretion is an affection of the soul, as sorrow is, and not an acquisition. 1 For I do not suppose that a man could instantly pass from being indiscreet to being discreet, if indeed the one who is to be discreet must first have become wise.
Do you mean to say, then, Cyrus answered, that in one day’s time your father has become discreet when he was indiscreet before?
Yes said he, I do, indeed.
By that you mean to say that discretion is an affection of the soul, as sorrow is, and not an acquisition. 1 For I do not suppose that a man could instantly pass from being indiscreet to being discreet, if indeed the one who is to be discreet must first have become wise.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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