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But if you will hearken to me, I will display before you, to begin with, many works and wondrous doings of men of old, and I will report their sayings to you and make you master, so to speak, of all learning. I will adorn your soul, which is the dominant power within you, with many graces to wit, self-control, righteousness, reverence, gentleness, equity, wisdom, strength, love of beauty, taste for the worthiest pursuits. For these are the things that really make the spotless beauty of the soul. No sequence of events in the past or present will escape you; nay, by my help you will behold even the future, and I will teach you erelong the nature of the whole universe, the divine as well as the human.
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You who are now poor, the son of a nobody, meditating the adoption of such an ignoble craft, shall be shortly felicitated and envied by the world; you shall have honor and praise and glory among the noblest; you shall be clad like this -here she indicated her own garments, which were splendid in the extreme-" and you shall be deemed worthy of office and eminence. When you go abroad you will not be unknown and obscure in a foreign land. I will set such marks upon you that every one who sees you will nudge his neighbor and point you out with his finger, saying, 'That is he.'
