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Nay, by the gods, said he, I do not think I should like to employ servants that I knew served me only from compulsion. But if I had servants who I thought assisted me, as in duty bound, out of goodwill and friendship toward me, I think I should be better satisfied with them when they did wrong than with others who disliked me, when they performed all their tasks faithfully but from compulsion.
To this Tigranes replied: From whom could you ever get such friendship as you now can from us?
From those, I presume, said he, who have never been my enemies, if I would do them such favours as you now bid me do you.
Nay, by the gods, said he, I do not think I should like to employ servants that I knew served me only from compulsion. But if I had servants who I thought assisted me, as in duty bound, out of goodwill and friendship toward me, I think I should be better satisfied with them when they did wrong than with others who disliked me, when they performed all their tasks faithfully but from compulsion.
To this Tigranes replied: From whom could you ever get such friendship as you now can from us?
From those, I presume, said he, who have never been my enemies, if I would do them such favours as you now bid me do you.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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