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1 If, Menemachus, it is suitable to apply to anything at all the saying No one of all the Achaeans finds fault with the words thou hast uttered, Nor will oppose them in speech; and yet thou hast reached no conclusion,Homer, Il. ix. 55; cf. Moralia, 795 b. it may be applied to those philosophers who urge people to take lessons from them, but give no real instruction or advice; for they are like those who trim the lamps, but fail to pour in oil. Therefore, seeing that the desire has been aroused in you a Speaker of speeches to be, and also a doer of actionsHomer, Il. ix. 443; cf. Moralia, 795 e. in your native State, as befits your noble birth, since you have not time to gain an understanding of a philosopher’s life in the open among affairs of State and public conflicts or to be a spectator of examples worked out in deed, not merely in word, and since you ask for some precepts of statecraft, I think it is not at all fitting that I should refuse, and I pray that the result may be worthy of your zeal and of my goodwill; and, as you requested, I have made use of a rather large variety of examples.