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Plato, Greater Hippias, section 281b (search)
So I have often gone as envoy to other states, but most often and concerning the most numerous and important matters to Lacedaemon. For that reason, then, since you ask me, I do not often come to this neighborhood.SocratesThat's what it is, Hippias, to be a truly wise and perfect man! For you are both in your private capacity able to earn much money from the young
Plato, Greater Hippias, section 283b (search)
and many people agree with me that the wise man must be wise for himself especiallyApparently a proverbial expression like “physician, heal thyself” or “look out for number one.”; and the test of this is, who makes the most money. Well, so much for that. But tell me this: at which of the cities that you go to did you make the most money? Or are we to take it that it was at Lacedaemon, where your visits have been most frequent?HippiasNo, by Zeus, it was not, Socrates.SocratesWhat's that you say? But did you make least
Plato, Greater Hippias, section 283e (search)
HippiasNot in the least.SocratesThen were you not able to persuade the young men at Lacedaemon that they would make more progress towards virtue by associating with you than with their own people, or were you powerless to persuade their fathers that they ought rather to hand them over to you than to care for them themselves, if they are at all concerned for their sons? For surely they did not begrudge it to their children to become as good as possible.HippiasI do not think they begrudged it.Socyoung men at Lacedaemon that they would make more progress towards virtue by associating with you than with their own people, or were you powerless to persuade their fathers that they ought rather to hand them over to you than to care for them themselves, if they are at all concerned for their sons? For surely they did not begrudge it to their children to become as good as possible.HippiasI do not think they begrudged it.SocratesBut certainly Lacedaemon is well governed.HippiasOf course it is.
Plato, Greater Hippias, section 284b (search)
for the acquisition of virtue be most highly honored in Lacedaemon and make most money, if he so wishes, and in any other of the Greek states that is well governed? But do you, my friend, think he will fare better in Sicily and at Inycus? Are we to believe that, Hippias? For if you tell us to do so, we must believe it.HippiasYes, for it is not the inherited usage of the Lacedaemonians to change their laws or to educate their children differently from what is customary.SocratesWhat? For the Lacedaemonians is it the hereditary usage not to act rightly,