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that he has done a sweet hope1 ever attends and a goodly to be nurse of
his old age, as Pindar2 too says. For a beautiful saying it is, Socrates,
of the poet that when a man lives out his days in justice and piety“
sweet companion with him, to cheer his heart and nurse
his old age, accompanies
Hope, who chiefly rules the changeful mind of mortals.
”Pindar Frag. 214, LoebThat is a fine saying
and an admirable. It is for this, then, that I affirm that the possession of
wealth is of most value
1 The better hope of the initiated, often mentioned in connection with the mysteries, blends with the better hope of the righteous (Isocrates i. 39, iv. 20, viii. 34, Schmidt, Ethik der Griechen, ii. 73), and in the conclusion of the Pindar passage almost becomes the hope against which Greek moralists warn us. Cf. Pindar Nem. xi. in fine, Sophocles Antigone 615, Thuc. 2.62, Thuc. 3.45.
2 Pindar, Fragment 214, L.C.L. Edition.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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