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when you have brought the Hellenes to feel toward you as you see the Lacedaemonians feel toward their kings,1 and as your companions feel toward yourself. And it is not difficult for you to attain this if you determine to show yourself equally friendly to all, and cease treating some of the cities as friends and others as strangers, and if, furthermore, you fix your choice upon the kind of policy by which you can make yourself trusted by the Hellenes and feared by the barbarians.
1 See Isoc. Letter 2.6.