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6 Perhaps so. But those twenty years—has your teacher promised you that length of life? If he has he must be more than a wise man—a prophet, or an oracle-monger, or an expert in Chaldean lore, as well—they say that they know this sort of thing. For, if it is not certain that you will live to reach Virtue, it is quite unreasonable to take all this trouble and wear yourself out night and day, not knowing whether Fate as you near the top will come and pull you down by the foot with your hopes unfulfilled.

6 Away with you! That, Lycinus, is blasphemy. May I live to enjoy happiness through wisdom for just one day!

6 Would that repay you for all your labours—just one day?

6 For me even a moment is enough.

7 How can you know that up there there is a happiness and the like worth enduring everything to attain? You yourself have not yet been up there, I suppose?

7 I believe what my teacher says. He is already right at the top and knows very well.

7 What in Heaven’s name did he say about conditions there? What did he say this happiness there was? Some sort of riches, I suppose, and glory, and pleasures beyond compare?

7 Hush, friend! These have nothing to do with the life in Virtue.

7 If not these then, what does he say are the good things which those who complete their training will get?