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Wherefore greatness lies, not in the possession of good things, but in our use of them, since even infant children inherit their fathers’ kingdoms and dominions, even as Charillus, Cf. Life of Lycurgus, chap. iii. (41 a). whom Lycurgus carried in his swaddling-clothes into the common dining-hall and proclaimed king of Sparta in place of himself. Assuredly it was not the child who was great, but he who surrendered to the child its paternal rights, and did not keep them for himself nor take them away.
