Book 7
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What, then, do I propose that we should do, wherein practise virtue, and where apply the practice? I have nothing new to tell you, my men; butThe Persian discipline in Babylon Xen. Cyrop. 1.2.4 ff. just as in Persia the peers spend their time at the government buildings, so here also we peers must practise the same things as we did there; you must be in your places and watch me to see if I continue to do what I ought, and I will watch to see the same in you, and whomsoever I see pursuing what is good and honourable, him will I honour.
5.86
And as for our boys, as many as shall be born to us, let us educate them here. For we ourselves shall be better, if we aim to set before the boys as good examples as we can in ourselves; and the boys could not easily turn out bad, even if they should wish to, if they neither see nor hear anything vicious but spend their days in good and noble pursuits.
