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[3] Because a king is chosen, not to take good care of himself, but for the good of those who have chosen him;1 and all men fight in order that they may get the best life possible, and choose generals to guide them to it.

1 Cyropaedia I.6.8.

Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 4. E. C. Marchant. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1923.

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